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Leakiest

Leaky \Leak"y\, a. [Compar. Leakier; superl. Leakiest.]

  1. Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.

  2. Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close. [Colloq.]

  3. (Genetics) Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; as, substitution mutations are sometimes leaky; -- of mutations.

Wiktionary
leakiest

a. (en-superlativeleaky)

WordNet
leaky
  1. adj. permitting leaks or leakage; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system" [ant: tight]

  2. (of ships and boats) permitting leakage [syn: leaking]

  3. permitting liquids to penetrate; "a tarpaulin too leaky to be of much use"

  4. used informally; unable to retain urine

  5. prone to communicate confidential information [syn: blabbermouthed, talebearing(a), tattling(a)]

  6. [also: leakiest, leakier]

leakiest

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Usage examples of "leakiest".

Now, get out before I change my mind and ask Prince Tilal to lend me his oldest, smallest, leakiest ship and send you all on a long ocean voyage.

This is the world's leakiest government, and public opinion would stop it.

Thomas Nickerson's posi­tion as Chase's after oarsman meant that he was not included in this group but must manage as best he could on the leakiest of the three boats.

He’d give his best room to a family of scorpions—if they could pay—before he lodged one penniless wanderer under his leakiest outhouse roof.