scintilla

If you’re human and have a scintilla of emotional and social intelligence, then you know that psychological and emotional suffering are serious and lead to real-world personal and social dysfunction.

Without a scintilla of evidence, he added, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

No need to exert him any more, not when there was not a scintilla of a threat of a comeback from Scotland.

And if he was looking for a scintilla of criticism of the Russian president from Trump, then he did not get that either.

In sentencing Armstrong, Mr Justice McAlinden said that he had not shown "one scintilla of remorse or regret" for his actions.