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Definition of "leastwise" []

  • Informal In any event; at least. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "leastwise" in a sentence
  • ""Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here."
  • "Perhaps the model-woman's attraction lay in that to the eye she was a handsome animal; perhaps she fascinated him with her old - world talk of palaces and princes; leastwise she dazzled him whose life had been worked out in uncultured roughness, and he at last agreed to her suggestion of a run down the river and a marriage at"
  • "Not sure about MASK (leastwise I couldn't spot them), but there's a Gundam at the far right of the picture, and possibly a ZOID by the jeep thing."