Word Finder - best

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The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

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I did my best.

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One's best behavior.

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I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I'm nice to her, so I better be on my best.

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The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.

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To surpass in skill or achievement.

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To beat in a contest

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Most; largest.

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Unpacking took the best part of a week.

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Most superior; most favorable.

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In my opinion, mushrooms are the best pizza toppings.

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(of people)

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(of capabilities)

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(properties and qualities)

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(when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.

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The soup is good and hot.

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Holy (especially when capitalized) .

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Good Friday

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(of quantities)

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(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

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He does his job well.

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(manner) Completely, fully.

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We’re well beat now.

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(degree) To a significant degree.

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That author is well known.

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(degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).

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In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

Betsy and Martha, now practically best friends, conspired together against the rest of us until they owned most of the board.

She is the best seamstress in Houston!

The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Yours is the second offer I've had this trip and I want to make sure I get the best deal.

I'll do the best I can.

And now, my friends, please to excuse My lisping and my stammers; I, for this once, have done my best, And so--I'll make my manners.

Cassie cleaned the supper dishes as best she could with sand, and stored them in one of the packs.

The truth is, I like your companionship - and I'd like my parents to meet one of my best friends.

She and I were best pals every summer up here.

No, I simply think there is a proper way to do things, and humans have a habit of doing what pleases them at the moment, not what is best for the future.

Then a woman has to do the best she can on her own.

Everybody was astonished, for that boy was the best scholar in the school, and he had never been known to break a rule.

It shows us at our best and at our cruelest.

But at least you had my best interest in mind.

I want my best friend back, too.

He was the best loved of all our poets.

But what is best of all," he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, "is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand.

Jonatan is my best fwiend.

He had tried his best to push them out of it.

I am doing my best.

Only those who knew and loved him best can understand what his friendship meant to me.

Anyway, I was doing my best not to let things get out of control.

The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.

You're the best friend I've ever had and things around here could never be the same without you.

This was the same man who treated her so coldly earlier today, and she'd do best to keep that picture in her mind.

I decided that being truthful was the best approach.

They weren't exactly best of friends.

There was no reasoning with him, so she accepted a ride with her best friend, Connie.

He takes the best ones.

I thought that was the best way to carry her.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We have ten thousand carts, but we need other things as well--we must manage as best we can!

The best thing to do was to calmly tell him she would rather not go.

All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.

Howard was no doubt an exceedingly kind and worthy man in his way, and has his reward; but, comparatively speaking, what are a hundred Howards to us, if their philanthropy do not help us in our best estate, when we are most worthy to be helped?

I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it.

Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan.

The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov.

But to judge what is best--conscription or the militia--we can leave to the supreme authority....

Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander.

Ours must have got the best of it.

It was said that Mamonov's regiment would cost him eight hundred thousand rubles, and that Bezukhov had spent even more on his, but that the best thing about Bezukhov's action was that he himself was going to don a uniform and ride at the head of his regiment without charging anything for the show.

The Russian army, they say, in its retreat from Smolensk sought out for itself the best position for a general engagement and found such a position at Borodino.

The society gathered together at the governor's was the best in Voronezh.

It's best you don't say anything right now.

He was no gentleman, and she'd best keep that in mind.

There was little point in denying her attraction, but he'd best learn to keep his distance.

Much as she wanted the baby, she felt adoption was the best choice.

She's had some tough times, but we can hope for the best with this visit.

Deidre did her best to stabilize her breathing.