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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
- There's sugar in toffee and in jam, and they're hot, leastways they're hot to be made. Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story
- In the meantime, you just rest up and think about what things you want to pack, because we'll just about have to set up housekeeping on your stuff -- leastways, the front part of the house. Chapter XXIII
- It isn't cheap to get there, leastways not at this time of year.
- Gibson got some money, but like Brando in The Waterfront, he coulda been a contender, and wasn't, leastways not for his first novel. Archive 2010-02-01
- Which is a bad thing, cause I always liked Lou and nobody likes a thief, leastways one that's low enough to steal from another carny. Think being nobody's easy? Try it with the lights out.
- I am NOT an interfering busybody - leastways I can keep my trap firmly shut on any conundrum I don't know about.
- Leastways in New Zealand a jumper is a warm, often woolly garment worn over the torso by either gender to stay warm FODDER • by Paul Graham
- But there was no storm, leastways not any rain storm to speak of, and the hunt sucked. Pheasant Hunt
- `Nobody killed round here -- leastways, not tonight and not yet," Sam commented. THE LAST RAVEN
- Leastways he'll be gone to see feyther, and he'll need comfort most on all, in a fremd place -- in Bridewell -- and niver a morsel of victual or a piece o 'money.' Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
