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At any rate
Answer for the clue "At any rate ", 9 letters:
leastways
Word definitions for leastways in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leastways \Least"ways`\, Leastwise \Least"wise`\, adv. At least; at all events. [Colloq.] At leastways , or At leastwise , at least. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825, colloquial, from least + way (n.). Regarded as vulgar, but simply a one-word form of Chaucer's leest weye (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. (''colloquial'' or ''dialectal'') at least
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial); "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching" [syn: at least ...
Usage examples of leastways.
We fin'ly done foun' the roof awf Foster's house, whut's left of 'er, leastways.
Leastways, I never heard of any other clipcocks a German officer was trying to get hold of.
I 'eard 'im say he always 'ad one every place 'e was in as a butler-- leastways, whenever there was any dorters of the 'ouse.
Lawrence would say no more, so I decided that I would descend from my high horse, and once more seek out Poirot at Leastways Cottage.
Yas, I kno' yer brother— leastways hev seen him an' heerd heeps about him.
Leastways, he didn't know the words they'd doubtless put down on paper to be sung on such solemn occasions.
Leastways with one of 'em -- the uppitiest yaller son-of-a-bitch you ever see.