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veriest
- superlative form of very: most very
- Synonyms: most, truest
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Albatross”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 264:Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 638, column 1:If it had come to crawling before Mr Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 81:He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 4, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:One commentator observed that “to connect the dinosaurs, creatures of interest to but the veriest dullards, with a spectacular extraterrestrial event” seemed “like one of those plots a clever publisher might concoct to guarantee sales.”
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