merest's Usage Examples:

The merest pleasurelover may consistently say that he prefers a single glass of good champagne to several bottles of cooking-sherry; the slight but delicate experience of the single glass of good wine may fairly be regarded as preferable to the more massive but coarser experience of the large quantity of bad wine.

But Waterloo and the Restoration led to a second and final proscription of his father; and though not himself cashiered, Sadi was purposely told off for the merest drudgeries of his service.

"But even such an attempt to systematically plumb the universe can only make us acquainted with the merest inside shell.

But his adventures are the merest nightmares of puerile fancy.

The notopodium may be rudimentary or absent and the entire parapodium reduced to the merest ridge or even completely unrepresented.

He did so, and then governed like an evil-disposed boy - indulging the merest animal passions, listening to a small camarilla of low-born favourites, changing his ministers every three months, and acting on the impulse of whims which were sometimes mere buffoonery, but were at times lubricous, or ferocious.

Schools were rare, and teachers qualified only to impart the merest rudiments.

Naturally the probability of such a tradition - the merest hint of which happens to be preserved in Gen.

It started as the faintest whiff - the merest zephyr of cat shite wafting up my nose.

Add the merest dash of single cream or a smidgeon of milk and grate some black pepper over.

Usually, the merest whiff of cultural or religious indoctrination would make me run a mile.

Forster's pluck in speaking out like this was fully appreciated in England, but it was not till after the revelations connected with the Phoenix Park murders that the dangers he had confronted were properly realized, and it became known that several plans to murder him had only been frustrated by the merest accidents.

Synonyms:

specified,

Antonyms:

ample, unspecified,