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  • adjective superlative form of arch: most arch.

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Examples

  • Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • His gift was intuitive, not intellectual, so he offered no match for the doctrinal firepower of Antonin Scalia, the court's archest conservative.

    Why The Court Needs A Liberal 2008

  • Then again, when it came to something Amis actually cared about, he could be as punctilious as the archest of oenologists.

    The Hangover Artist 2008

  • Laura looked at Warrington with the archest sparkle in her eyes — Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Ephie, who had rapidly recovered her assurance, invariably began in her archest manner, and it became his special pleasure to reduce her, little by little, to a crimson silence.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • In his archest English, as Curtis recalled, Miller sniffed that he knew that Curtis was doing extremely good work at Berkeley—considering the limited amount of equipment he has.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • In his archest English, as Curtis recalled, Miller sniffed that he knew that Curtis was doing extremely good work at Berkeley—considering the limited amount of equipment he has.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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