leastwise
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of leastwise
Example Sentences
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Where are the children, "adjudged the leastwise of the land"?
From Time Magazine Archive
Arms feel ’most jerked out o’ the sockets, and skin’s off the palms of my hands, leastwise it feels like it.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
You see we never has none of 'em in Wolfville; leastwise we never does but once.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
"That's good, but I don't reckon I'll need any help, leastwise not for a long time," Buck responded.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
"I reckon so; leastwise I used to get my mail here," answered Roy, a bit startled.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
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