veriest
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of veriest
Example Sentences
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The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card.
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
After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The veriest coward would fight till the last with such an alternative as that before him.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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