1. in the least - Adverb
2. in the least - Phrase
in the slightest degree or in any respect
to any extent at all
Source: WordNetI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. Frederick Rolfe
Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent. George Bernard Shaw
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman