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
“There ain’t going to be no proposing, leastwise not by me.”
From Captain Pott's Minister by Cooper, Francis L. (Francis Le Roy)
In the ceilin' there's a small slide, leastwise I think it's a slide, though I'm not sure.
From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)
He says something about 'em being Sublette quarters in a department-house; leastwise that's what I makes out of what he says.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
That song ain’t got much music in it, leastwise not as I sung it, but it’s got a heap of truth.
From Captain Pott's Minister by Cooper, Francis L. (Francis Le Roy)
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