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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
How To Use leastways In A Sentence
- If you can't get soup you can leastways get applesauce. Pheasant Hunt
- It ain't the SMILING JANE," said one of the seamen; "leastways," he added cautiously, "it wasn't when I came aboard. Many Cargoes
- You are here with us," saith Seth, puzzled at the boy's addressing him so familiarly; "but my name arn't Sam, leastways, not as I knows on. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
- I knowed it was you, sir; leastways I knowed your legs an 'the set o' them shoulders, but -- with a barrer! The Definite Object A Romance of New York
- Damn, you can't use a bow'n'arrow out a car window, leastways not over eighty mile an hour.
- The first one is a relatively stable area; leastways the changes are not very dynamic.
- He was gentler than a woman — leastways, than the "girls" who used to live in some big buildin's across the way there where you see the warehouse now. Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon
- He didn't tell it, Miss -- leastways, not until after them three others boarded us. CHAPTER XXXVI
- She is the experienced one, leastways that is what she is running on. Obama campaign makes general election plans
- 'Nothing at all, Edie dear; leastways, that is, nothing to speak of,' said her mother, coming up from the shop hot and flurried from her desperate encounter with the redoubtable Miss Luttrell. Philistia
