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- adjective
superlative form ofcrisp : mostcrisp .
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Examples
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While most of the senators were at least as verbose as they were at the September confirmation hearings of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the crispest was the chairman, Mr. Specter, who dispensed with an introduction on Tuesday and was immediately out of the gate with a question about abortion.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Which means when I write a scene I work extremely hard to know its physical and temporal reality with totality, and secondarily, its emotional and psychological reality in some totality; and then find, and this is always my ambition, not always achieved, the crispest, most compact way of naming that reality.
Ben Evans: A Few Good Questions With Justin Cronin Ben Evans 2011
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Although there's so much butter that it needs to be drained before serving or presented in a bowl, the pastry is the crispest yet, which I attribute to the cold fruit beneath.
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I'm so glad you posted this because I've been wanting to make my own instead of begging jars from my mother-in-law (who, incidentally, makes the lightest, crispest, most addictive fried okra that might even convert you -- I'm working on perfecting her method!) yay Lisa!
Spicy pickled okra | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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She was standing with her new-found friends, in their freshest and crispest attire, at the front of the church when the priest started handing out wafers.
Rich Siegel: My Jewish Daughter's First Communion Rich Siegel 2011
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Which means when I write a scene I work extremely hard to know its physical and temporal reality with totality, and secondarily, its emotional and psychological reality in some totality; and then find, and this is always my ambition, not always achieved, the crispest, most compact way of naming that reality.
Ben Evans: A Few Good Questions With Justin Cronin Ben Evans 2011
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The redoubtable Artimus Pyle, drummer, is at his crispest.
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My need for a slightly different version took me to piling slices of sharp, grey-rinded cheese and wafers of crispest pancetta on a slice cut from a baguette.
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The redoubtable Artimus Pyle, drummer, is at his crispest.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD : Gimme Back My Bullets « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2010
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She was standing with her new-found friends, in their freshest and crispest attire, at the front of the church when the priest started handing out wafers.
Rich Siegel: My Jewish Daughter's First Communion Rich Siegel 2011
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