Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In any event; at least.
from The Century Dictionary.
- At least: formerly used with at, with the same force.
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- adverb informal "at least".
- adverb
minimally
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here.
The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance F. Anstey 1895
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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
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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.
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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
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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I would guess it too won't be overlooked by those remaining fence-sitting superdelegates - leastwise those who possess a shred of self respect.
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I mean, couldn't they get some pitchers of Satan or, leastwise, Obamandingo?
Men Pursuing Purity 2009
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There's no moon in the sky, leastwise, that I can see.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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There's no moon in the sky, leastwise, that I can see.
The Goddess and the Moon... Jan 2008
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We are proud and we are strong and we don't take a shafting from anyone, leastwise a pack of robber barons.
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Henry; leastwise he died on the voyage; but the wild folk took it cruel well, for you see, we was always as civil with them as
Westward Ho! 2007
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