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  • adjective superlative form of shadowy: most shadowy.

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Examples

  • Even in the darkness, able to see only the dimmest, shadowiest outline of the figure, Tasslehoff had the strange and squirmy feeling in his stomach (probably left over from being struck) that he knew this person.

    Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

  • Even in the darkness, able to see only the dimmest, shadowiest outline of the figure, Tasslehoff had the strange and squirmy feeling in his stomach (probably left over from being struck) that he knew this person.

    Dragons of a Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

  • A Fall LP pattern had taken shape: stark, dark photography of the band, strange spidery diagrams, scrawled half-sentences and the shadowiest of info from the pen of Smith.

    FallNews - Hey Peasants! 2000

  • Prof. HERMAN: Lauchlin Currie is one of the shadowiest figures of the whole maze of Soviet espionage and Soviet agents at work in the highest reaches of the -- of the federal government.

    Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life & Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator 2000

  • Downstairs, he seated Asa at the shadowiest table and joined him, cleaning his nails with his knife.

    Shadows Linger Cook, Glen 1984

  • With a widowed aunt for the shadowiest of chaperons, she had drifted with the tide of inclination, coming finally to rest in the western capital for no better reason, perhaps, than that some portion of her interest-bearing securities were emblazoned with the great seal of this particular western State.

    The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

  • Had he had the shadowiest suspicion of my plans, of the true inwardness of the

    The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889

  • I trust I do not seem even in the shadowiest way to comment unfavourably.

    The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • But to pray for the sake of the prayer, and without regard to there being no one to hear, would to me indicate a nature not merely illogical but morally false, did I not suspect a vague undetected apprehension of a Something diffused through the All of existence, and some sort of shadowiest communion therewith.

    Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

  • The higher objects of Government were, if at all, outlined in the shadowiest form in his imagination.

    Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire 1871

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