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  1. 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 leastwise In A Sentence

  • And further, it seemeth very likely that the inhabitants of the most part of those countries, by which they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or men-eaters, would have devoured them, slain them, or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze. The North-West Passage
  • I would guess it too won't be overlooked by those remaining fence-sitting superdelegates - leastwise those who possess a shred of self respect. Updates On The Richardson Endorsement
  • Not sure about MASK (leastwise I couldn't spot them), but there's a Gundam at the far right of the picture, and possibly a ZOID by the jeep thing. An early glimpse of Morrison and Murphy’s Joe the Barbarian | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • I mean, couldn't they get some pitchers of Satan or, leastwise, Obamandingo? Men Pursuing Purity
  • There used to be a homeless encampment, but the city finally cleaned them out… or leastwise moved them a couple of blocks north as best as I can tell.
  • This done, she letteth her mash run till the malt be left without liquor, or at the leastwise the greatest part of the moisture, which she perceiveth by the stay and soft issue thereof; and by this time her second liquor in the furnace is ready to seethe, which is put also to the malt, as the first woort also again into the furnace, whereunto she addeth two pounds of the best English hops, and so letteth them seethe together by the space of two hours in summer or an hour and a half in winter, whereby it getteth an excellent colour, and continuance without impeachment or any superfluous tartness. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here. The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
  • Dey taught o 'dat: so dey's gwine to leabe one man at de fawks wid a good hoss to come down whichever road you don't take, an' gib 'em warnin ', leastwise ef you takes de upper road, which dey don't' spect, cos you come de lower one. A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools
  • It's rumored he's involved in rustling trail herds, but so far, he ain't broke no laws, leastwise, any that I can pin on him.
  • Henry; leastwise he died on the voyage; but the wild folk took it cruel well, for you see, we was always as civil with them as Westward Ho!
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