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Definition of Neatest
1. neat [adj] - See also: neat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neatest
Literary usage of Neatest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"It is convertible at any moment into the activity of a steam- hammer hitting the
nail on the head in the neatest and most effective fashion. ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Buchanan-Hamilton describes as ' one of the neatest pieces of architecture in
the whole place ;' and the tomb of Niamat-ulla-Wali. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... the neatest creature of a house-keeper that ever dusted furniture ; I am in
confederacy with the beet tea-merchant, and receive a daily visit from ooe ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"... standing up at the top to bear up a dish; which indeed is one of the neatest
pieces of plate that ever I saw, and the case is very pretty, also. ..."
5. Dictionary of the Kiniassa Language by John Rebman, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Church Missionary Society (1877)
"his -pipe is -the neatest. His mother also, indulging him, makes even from time
to time the plastering on his cottage (see bua.ro). ..."
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