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  • adjective superlative form of slow: most slow.

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  • adverb most slowly

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Examples

  • Insulin gets into your system a bit slower when injected in the upper arms, even more slowly in the legs, and slowest from the buttocks.

    9 Must-Know Facts About How Insulin Works The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Even his slowest was a lot quicker than anything his opponent could offer.

    Wimbledon 2011: Andy Roddick turns on power against Victor Hanescu 2011

  • Even his slowest was a lot quicker than anything his opponent could offer.

    Wimbledon 2011: Andy Roddick turns on power against Victor Hanescu 2011

  • So it was that the pace of the slowest was the pace of all, for we dared not separate on account of the prowlers.

    Page 6 2010

  • On this track, he disses everyone from Dr. Dre first name slowest, last name ever to the Clipse, and it's just a hoot.

    For Wednesday, just a slew of movie news, good, bad and simply silly Reel Fanatic 2010

  • On this track, he disses everyone from Dr. Dre first name slowest, last name ever to the Clipse, and it's just a hoot.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Reel Fanatic 2010

  • Nor are we right in supposing that the swiftest of them is the slowest, nor conversely, that the slowest is the quickest.

    Laws 2006

  • Also the slowest, which is why we wanted them to do it that way.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • The individual too often becomes the victim of the pressure group, the protection racket, the little local law unto itself We have already spoken of the dreaded McCarthy and we know the folklore of the Ku Klux Klan and the fastest gun in the West, and Watergate, which I suppose might be characterized as the slowest \vits in the East.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • So it was that the pace of the slowest was the pace of all, for we dared not separate on account of the prowlers.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

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