Crossword clues for loosest
loosest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. Looser (l[=oo]s"[~e]r); superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le['a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l["o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]
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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
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Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.
Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?
--Addison. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
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Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
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Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
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Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
The loose morality which he had learned.
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Unconnected; rambling.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
--I. Watts. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
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Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
Loose ladies in delight.
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Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
--Dryden.At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed.
Fast and loose. See under Fast.
To break loose. See under Break.
Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.
To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: loose)
Usage examples of "loosest".
Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.
There were darkies and loafers and hackmen, and also vague individuals, the loosest and blankest he had ever seen anywhere, with tufts on their chins, toothpicks in their mouths, hands in their pockets, rumination in their jaws and diamond pins in their shirt-fronts, who looked as if they had sauntered over from Pennsylvania Avenue to while away half an hour, forsaking for that interval their various slanting postures in the porticoes of the hotels and the doorways of the saloons.
There seemed only the loosest possible sense of community among the residents.
Then he squeezed into what had been his loosest jeans and put on a green flannel shirt that he could not button all the way.
I think Michael saw something that would nail down some of the loosest ends.
A ten-million dollar estate, left in only the loosest form of trust, requires a capable mind in charge.
Our method, what is called evil, the exercise of license and power on an individual basis, a stable kind of anarchy with only the loosest form of restraint, that is the most humane way, the way that causes the least pain.
Were the loosest and freest conversation to be transcribed, there would immediately be observed something which connected it in all its transitions.