frailest
- superlative of frail.
Example Sentences
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In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance, as the stipend is called, is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2023
These are the sickest and frailest patients - the ones who cannot be sent home immediately after treatment.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022
To date, 78 of Ukraine’s frailest Holocaust survivors, of whom there are some 10,000, have been evacuated.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
Unable to speak, Qawasmi, 24, is the frailest of the six.
From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2021
No thread, no frailest hair between myself and the universal clutter!
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
