Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
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Veriest
//ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst//
Synonyms for "veriest" (3 found)
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If it had come to crawling before Mr Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
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He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.
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One commentator observed that “to connect the dinosaurs, creatures of interest to but the veriest dullards, with a spectacular extraterrestrial event” seemed “like one of those plots a clever publisher might concoct to guarantee sales.”
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