veriest
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of veriest
Example Sentences
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There is something uncanny about the way the veriest trifles in the "well-constructed" novel fit into the relentless pattern of the whole.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the most blandly vacuous and the veriest tyros of the theatre can regard Cock o' the Roost favorably.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the veriest trifle she would have gone down again.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
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