merest

The merest acquaintance would have said something more emphatic than "I will, thank you; good-by," to such a request.

It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.

The thymus gland attains a considerable development in the embryo and shrinks away to the merest vestige in the adult.

This realism descends to the merest details, and the poetic quality of the work suffers considerably in many passages.

Ours is such a difficult and extremely delicate task that the merest trifle may make or mar us.