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Idiom

not in the slightest

Meaning

not at all, not in any way

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I am not in the slightest bit hungry right now.”

“She asked if I was angry about the mistake, but I told her I was not in the slightest.”

“Although the critics dismissed his work as derivative, he remained concerned not in the slightest, confident that his vision would eventually find its audience.”

Examples

simple

“I am not in the slightest bit hungry right now.”

contextual

“She asked if I was angry about the mistake, but I told her I was not in the slightest.”

complex

“Although the critics dismissed his work as derivative, he remained concerned not in the slightest, confident that his vision would eventually find its audience.”

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