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  • adjective colloquial superlative form of scared: most scared.

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Examples

  • Starring Jack Nicholson in what might be his most iconic role, and Shelly Duvall as maybe the scaredest-looking wife in movie history, it's a classic movie filled with classic clips.

    Rachel Sklar: The Shining: Scariest Hallowe'en Book -- and Movie! -- Ever 2009

  • Smoke, I don't mind tellin 'you in confidence that before we started I was the gosh-dangdest scaredest man this side of the Rocky Mountains.

    Smoke Bellew - The Meat 1911

  • "You were the scaredest," Johnnie told the Muley Cow.

    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • Smoke, I don't mind tellin 'you in confidence that before we started I was the gosh-dangdest scaredest man this side of the Rocky Mountains.

    Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896

  • Don't you reckon Adam was about the scaredest thing in the wide, wide world about the time old Ma Eve set up her bakeshop under the spreading fig tree?

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • We all run up in front of the grandstand, and stood lookin 'up at Pinto, and him the maddest, scaredest, cross-eyedest horse I ever did see in all my life.

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • On the whole, I reckon we was the three lonesomest, scaredest, unhappiest people in all that big town -- it was Christmas Eve too!

    The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890

  • Most actresses get lost entirely when anything occurs that is not in the play, and Miss Gray was the scaredest female that ever lived.

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

  • There was five or six minutes there when my life wasn't worth a last year's bird's-nest -- and I tell you, sir, I was the scaredest man that ever drew the breath of life.

    The Market-Place Harold Frederic 1877

  • a few, didn't we, Smoke, I don't mind tellin 'you in confidence that before we started I was the gosh-dangdest scaredest man this side of the Rocky-Mountains.

    THE MEAT 2010

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