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Most meager
Answer for the clue "Most meager ", 8 letters:
slimmest
Alternative clues for the word slimmest
Word definitions for slimmest in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. take off weight [syn: reduce , melt off , lose weight , slenderize , thin , slim down ] [ant: gain ] [also: slimmest , slimmer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slim \Slim\ (sl[i^]m), a. [Compar. Slimmer ; superl. Slimmest .] [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativeslim)
Usage examples of slimmest.
Without her pearl-handled daggers she lacked even the slimmest of fighting chances.
One of them, the slimmest, of about my own age, held himself rigid, as if facing an ordeal.
Most normal cities would be deeply ashamed to have a felon as mayor, but on Tuesday, Hialeah declaredif by the slimmest of marginsthat it is beyond shame.
Who had the slimmest of chances to take root in a place where their families could prosper, where freedom and money and contentment were, the story went, as common as sunlight and rain.
She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom.
If he died she had only the slimmest chance of finding her way out of the cavern.
Far from being a story which alternately excites and consoles, life is an endless slurry of computer print-out, a pie chart of statistical trends in which you, I fear, have been allotted the slimmest of slices.
There was a coldness in his eyes now, a merciless rage that boiled in him just below the surface, held in check by the slimmest of threads.