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- adjective
superlative form ofweighty : mostweighty .
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Examples
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He had a peculiar way of prefacing his weightiest sentences with a short word, uttered twice in a guttural manner, clearing up his throat, or his "gullick," as he would term it, just before uttering them.
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One of the weightiest is the unexpected mea culpa that Abby Mann wrote for the defendant Dr. Janning, played by Burt Lancaster, in "Judgment at Nuremberg."
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One of the weightiest is the unexpected mea culpa that Abby Mann wrote for the defendant Dr. Janning, played by Burt Lancaster, in "Judgment at Nuremberg."
Kissing and Telling 2008
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Among these the weightiest was the silent George Washington.
George Washington Thayer, William R 1922
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Of these last the weightiest is the one at first called simply
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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Of these last the weightiest is the one at first called simply 'Elegy', and later 'The Walk'.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Since the cheaper loaves of bread were brands unfamiliar to me, I read the ingredient listings - and was sad but not surprised to see high fructose corn syrup in every loaf, in one loaf making up the third weightiest ingredient.
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It's probably the weightiest question in the gym world.
Jill S. Brown: A Weighty Issue: Surprising Research on Lifting Light vs. Lifting Heavy Jill S. Brown 2010
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The president said he had prayed for God's intervention on any number or occasions – though not always on the weightiest issues of the day.
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Professor Geoffrey R Stone, editor of the Supreme Court Review and one of the weightiest voices in this collection, adds now widely quoted pragmatism to such basic doubts.
The Offensive Internet edited by Saul Levmore and Martha C Nussbaum – review 2011
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