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[ adjective ] (usually follows `the') most meager
Examples "didn't have the slightest chance" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)It is true , that nothing has been found comparable_with electricity by communication ; but the phenomena observed had such a degree of analogy to those depending_on electrical distribution that one could not find the slightest difference . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara_Sullam ; and in her forthright way , Henrietta , who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think_of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '' , felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris_Jastrow took the slightest exception - he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair , as_well_as on the radical reforms of Dr._Wise of Hebrew_Union_College - until once , in sheer desperation , he wrote that he had given_up hope they would ever agree on anything . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)But Blanche had been able to maintain a serene and assured composure in the face of her widowed mother 's continued carping , had been able to resist her urgings to date anyone who offered the slightest possibility of matrimony . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)They 've worried , they 've lain_awake nights , they 've shook at the slightest footstep , they 've pictured their own destruction , and now it 's all over and they can give_up . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)( A detailed search of old coroner 's reports fails to substantiate this in the slightest . ) Related terms |
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