smallest degree
Example Sentences
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All other things I call luxuries, without meaning by this appellation to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them.
From Economist ● Jun. 2, 2013
For reasons psychological and political, Argentina has always been, and still is, reluctant to join any front, to surrender even to the smallest degree control of her destiny to others.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Upon my honour,” said he very seriously, “it does not. It is not in the smallest degree connected with any human being of the name of Knightley.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. Woodhouse’s party could be made up in the evening without him, or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at Hartfield.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
If moral feelings can spring up spontaneously, even in the smallest degree, and then be developed by "natural outgrowths," how do any of our feelings differ from natural ones?
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
