least of all

Adverb

Meaning

especially not

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Examples

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. Francis Bacon

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. Baruch Spinoza

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. Ayn Rand

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. Erich Maria Remarque

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Francis Bacon

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble. George Gissing

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