veriest
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of veriest
Example Sentences
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Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
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Only the most blandly vacuous and the veriest tyros of the theatre can regard Cock o' the Roost favorably.
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The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
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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.
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Or perhaps those who have never known a mother's love cling to the veriest shred and tatter of it, if it fall in their way.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
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