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  • adjective superlative form of purple: most purple.

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Examples

  • Because that will be epic for my word count, even if it meant prose of the most purplest of purples.

    And So It Begins Luovien Innoitus 2011

  • It is quite another to engage in eye-rolling prose of the purplest kind.

    Medicine Thomas Vinciguerra 2011

  • I live in the purplest of swing states, and I must say that Obama and the democrats have both lost my vote this November with this little ploy.

    Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer 2009

  • Every year for mother's day, our father took us to the local nursery where my sister, brother and I selected the biggest, pinkest, purplest, overflowingest hanging fuchsia plant we could find.

    Susan Sawyers: Fuchsia Funk 2008

  • I reached in and pulled out the biggest, purplest stuffed poodle I'd ever seen.

    Sundays at Tiffany's Charbonnet, Gabrielle 2008

  • The heather was at its purplest, the furze at its yellowest, the grasshoppers chirped loud enough for birds, the snakes hissed like little engines, and Elfride at first felt lively.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • She was wearing the biggest, purplest Victorian dress I had ever seen, and this gigantic beehive hair-do.

    super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006

  • The effect was beyond any description that avoids the purplest of prose, although one person I showed the book to described the effect in a way I very much liked: It hurts.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • The effect was beyond any description that avoids the purplest of prose, although one person I showed the book to described the effect in a way I very much liked: It hurts.

    A Conversation with Don Nace 2005

  • It was musty, cobwebbed, and encrusted with stalactic nitre, but the spirit of rare old vintages exhaled from its depths, and visionary clusters of purplest grapes dangled in every direction.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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