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Leastways

adverb
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If nothing else ('leastwise' is informal and 'leastways' is colloquial).  Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastwise.  "They felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary" , "The influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"






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"Leastways" Quotes from Famous Books



... carbines, sir,' said the corporal. 'Leastways 'e was crawlin' towards the barricks, sir, past the main road sentries, an' the ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling

... good grist o' 'em," said Ike, "leastways a kupple o' thousand in the gang—thur's bulls, cows, yearlins, an' young calf too, so we'll have a choice o' meat—either beef or veal. Kin we do better than foller ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... half-seas-over, when they get ashore, blind drunk by dark, and cruising out of the Golden Gate in different deep-sea ships by the next morning. Can't keep them from talking, can't I? Well, I can make 'em talk separate, leastways. If a whole crew came talking, parties would listen; but if it's only one lone old shell-back, it's the usual yarn. And at least, they needn't talk before six months, or—if we have luck, and there's a whaler ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... bedraggled, yet hurried: her air was predominantly one of anxiety. "I'll give you a quarter for that cat," she said. "I want an all-white cat, but this one's only got that one gray spot over its eye, and I don't believe there's an all-white cat left in town, leastways that anybody's willing to part with. I'll give you twenty-five cents for it. I haven't got it with me, but I'll promise to give it ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

... Rectory, whereas in earlier days it would have been useless to pursue such a course in respect of anything but candles, or soap, or treacle, or perhaps a penny child's picture-book, and nine times out of ten it'd be something more in the nature of a bottle of whisky you'd be requiring; leastways—On the whole Humphreys thought he would be prepared with ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James


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