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Definition: At The Best |
At The BestAdverb1. Under the best of conditions; "at best we'll lose only the money". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: At The BestSynonym: at best (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: at worst (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: At The Best |
| English words defined with "at the best": prime. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "at the best": at the market ♦ BEG ♦ order at best. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Six months under observation at the best hospital you can find. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty) | |
Lyrics | Were at the best place around (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple) | |
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Books | |
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John Ruskin | How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Australia | Nonetheless, American exporters should take caution in that, while the Australian market has long recognized the quality and technological sophistication of U.S. products, Australian consumers and businesses are discriminating: they strive to buy the best product at the best price. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. Who is that, father? A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable -- wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well. Why did they put him there, father? Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws. His belly? Oh, well, he was starving, my boy -- A state in which, doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!" What's the matter with pie? With little to wear, he had nothing to sell; To beg was unlawful -- improper as well. Why didn't he work? He would even have done that, But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low. Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles -- Pray what did bad Mendicant do? Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back. Is that all father dear? There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to -- well, The company's better than here we can boast, And there's -- Bread for the needy, dear father? Um -- toast. Atka Mip |
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| Language | Translations for "at the best"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | في أحسن الظروف (at best). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "でさえ (even at the best of times, in addition to, under normal circumstances). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た でさえ (even at the best of times, in addition to, under normal circumstances). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | atay ethay estbay în cazul cel mai bun. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: testate. | |
-3 letters: attest, bathes, behest, bettas, estate, testae, thebes, thetas. | |
-4 letters: abets, bahts, baste, bates, bathe, baths, batts, beast, beats, beets, beset, betas, beths, betta, haets, haste, hates, heats, hebes, setae, sheet, state, tabes, taste, tates, tease, teats, teeth, testa, teths, thebe, these, theta. | |
-5 letters: abet, ates, baht, base, bash, bast, bate, bath, bats. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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