Adjective
The word is derived from ready
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. Demosthenes
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe
If you are in a strait, a very good indication as to choice-perhaps the best you could get-is a book you have a great curiosity about. You are then in the readiest and best of all possible conditions to improve by that book. Thomas Carlyle
Why, gentlemen, humor is one of the most valuable things in the human brain. It is the torch of the mind -- it sheds light. Humor is the readiest test of truth -- of the natural, of the sensible -- and when you take from a man all sense of humor, there will only be enough left to make a bigot. Robert G. Ingersoll
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. Robert Louis Stevenson