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
The result is that after meeting Bach, even the veriest cynic is likely to find himself shamelessly rooting for Jonathan Livingston Seagull and curiously willing to forgive the book its literary trespasses.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Instead, the veriest drudge you ever knew," he said.
From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin
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