Definition of leastways in English:
leastways
(also leastwise)
adverbˈliːstweɪzˈlistˌweɪz
dialect, informal At least.
〈方，或非正式〉至少
I don't hold with foreigners, leastways not here in King's Magnum Parva
我不喜欢外国人，至少是在金斯马格纳帕瓦这地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- Damn, you can't use a bow'n'arrow out a car window, leastways not over eighty mile an hour.
- The first one is a relatively stable area; leastways the changes are not very dynamic.
- It's rumored he's involved in rustling trail herds, but so far, he ain't broke no laws, leastwise, any that I can pin on him.
- Now there's some o’ the swells as got plenty, - leastways it ought to be, - an’ yet they want more, an’ they ain't by no means partic'lar whether it's honest or not, the way they gits it.
- There used to be a homeless encampment, but the city finally cleaned them out… or leastwise moved them a couple of blocks north as best as I can tell.
Definition of leastways in US English:
leastways
(also leastwise)
adverbˈlēstˌwāzˈlistˌweɪz
dialect, informal At least.
〈方，或非正式〉至少
there is no place like our home, leastways not this side of hell
Example sentencesExamples
- Now there's some o’ the swells as got plenty, - leastways it ought to be, - an’ yet they want more, an’ they ain't by no means partic'lar whether it's honest or not, the way they gits it.
- It's rumored he's involved in rustling trail herds, but so far, he ain't broke no laws, leastwise, any that I can pin on him.
- There used to be a homeless encampment, but the city finally cleaned them out… or leastwise moved them a couple of blocks north as best as I can tell.
- Damn, you can't use a bow'n'arrow out a car window, leastways not over eighty mile an hour.
- The first one is a relatively stable area; leastways the changes are not very dynamic.