Definition of Strawiest

1. strawy [adj] - See also: strawy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strawiest

strawberry tomato
strawberry tree
strawberry trees
strawberryish
strawberryless
strawberrylike
strawboard
strawboards
strawcraft
strawed
strawen
strawflower
strawflowers
strawhat
strawier
strawiest (current term)
strawing
strawless
strawlike
strawman
strawmen
strawn
strawne
straws
strawweight
strawworm
strawworms
strawy
stray
strayed

Literary usage of Strawiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... or twenty pages of real literary criticism ; and where he does give us any it is of the " strawiest " 1 Ed. Hertz, 2 vols., Leipsic, 1886. obnoxius. ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... or twenty pages of real literary criticism ; and where he does give us any it is of the " strawiest" 1 Ed. Hertz, 2 vols., Leipsic, 1888. obnoxius. ..."

3. Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893: Memories of His Life, with Extracts from His by Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1907)
"... that it is very hot, but that the heat is not felt as much as it is here; that you must wear the thinnest of clothing and the strawiest of ..."

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