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
“An’ that,” declared the clam digger, rising and getting ready to move on, “was the main reason why I left the sea; leastwise I never wanted to go sailin’ much in them parts again.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill
“There ’tis––or leastwise that’s a part on it.
From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer
I did not think the train was necessary and there was no need of a veil, leastwise not so long a one, but it was Mabel's wish to have them, so I did not object.
From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
‘Well, you see, ma’am, it ain’t allowed by the magistrates; leastwise, not inside the borough.’
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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