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Choicer

Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. Choicer; superl. Choicest.]

  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

    My choicest hours of life are lost.
    --Swift.

  2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

  3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

    Choice word measured phrase.
    --Wordsworth.

    Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/

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choicer

a. (en-comparative of: choice)

Usage examples of "choicer".

As the youngest member, I didn't get the choicer bits, but I wouldn't give anyone the satisfaction of hearing me complain.

The aunts were, as usual, squabbling over who had received the choicer portions of fish, and then Old Uncle decided to call them to order, only his mouth was full at that moment and he choked.

Either that, or Thraxton would try out some of his choicer sorceries on a soldier at least nominally on his own side.

Some of the choicer sorceries he'd aimed at the southrons in battles past had unaccountably gone awry, coming down on the heads of his own troops.

The auction building, open on one side, contained the choicer items that were to be sold.

The choicer of these items were displayed on wooden racks, and Karen reached a covetous hand toward an appliqued quilt, each square of which had a different pattern.

In return, Frank had reminded Antonio of some choicer passages from the Venetian Committee's statements as to the rights of free people, and all but called the old guy a fascist.

It looked like he had recognized some of Massimo's choicer phrases right off the bat, which left Frank with the uneasy feeling that some bright guy at the Inquisition could easily do the same thing.

I can't say I'm surprised to hear that the opportunistic sons-of-bitches think the time has come to start carving off the choicer bits.

Whatever Theisman and Pritchart may be up to, Gustav is obviously planning on devouring the choicer bits and pieces of Silesia.

No mind control would be imposed on him, for him the collector had assigned a choicer role.