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  • adjective superlative form of level: most level.

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Examples

  • Nancy Birdsall, the head of the Center for Global Development, provides one of the levelest heads around on this front, by acknowledging the role that Collier has played in raising the issues and suggesting some more modest interventions that are better supported by the evidence.

    Dennis Whittle: Don't Just Do Something - Sit There! 2009

  • I think she's the levelest head to get us through the next bumpy years.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Poll: Hillary, Huckabee Leading In Iowa 2009

  • I think she's the levelest head to get us through the next bumpy years.

    Poll: Hillary, Huckabee Leading In Iowa 2009

  • Despite the hairyknuckled, muscle-bound illiterate act the troll liked to put on when he was working, Chumley was probably the levelest head in our entire M.Y.T.H. Inc. crew.

    Sweet Myth-tery of Life Asprin, Robert 1994

  • This present dependence upon the plow means that one-third of our soil resources is used only for forest, one-third is being injured by hillside erosion, and only one-third, the levelest, is being properly used for plow crops.

    Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912

  • Meanwhile the senior first lieutenant of the company, Lieut. Albert E. May, one of the levelest-headed officers in the regiment, had put the first and only man who showed signs of insubordination to an officer under arrest.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • Under the big pine tree, where the ground was the levelest of any place in the yard, Alice had them spread out all their burrs.

    Mary Jane—Her Visit Clara Ingram Judson 1914

  • To one who will take the trouble to recall the variety of woods, thickets, and jungles that go to make up a wooded country -- especially in the creek bottoms where a logging road finds often its levelest way -- and the piles of windfalls, vines, bushes, and scrubs that choke the thickets with a discouraging and inextricable tangle, the clearing of five miles to street width will look like an almost hopeless undertaking.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • To one who will take the trouble to recall the variety of woods, thickets, and jungles that go to make up a wooded country -- especially in the creek bottoms where a logging road finds often its levelest way -- and the piles of windfalls, vines, bushes, and scrubs that choke the thickets with a discouraging and inextricable tangle, the clearing of five miles to street width will look like an almost hopeless undertaking.

    The Blazed Trail 1902

  • A big, darkened drawing-room; a huge chair; a man with eyes, a mane of grizzled hair, a brown mustache covering a mouth as delicate as a woman's, a strong, square hand shaking mine, and the slowest, calmest, levelest voice in all the world saying:

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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