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Meanings of scintilla in English
Synonyms
Examples for "whit"
Examples for "whit"
1
The fractured nature of the home side's display won't matter one whit.
2
And yet he wrought no whit the better; pride ruled the prince.
3
Nor were the Catholics a whit behind the Protestants in this matter.
4
To those two in the old orchard it mattered not a whit.
5
But the girl relaxed not a whit in her attitude of offense.
1
Other less-active galaxies from our carnival shred many fewer stars per year.
2
She scours the news and social media for any shred of information.
3
The smaller shred of the two was completely liquefied in 6 hrs.
4
There were no leads; he did not have a shred of evidence.
5
In a year stacked with smoking shred, Electric Aborigines remains largely unheralded.
1
Not that it made one jot of difference in the long run.
2
The darkness deepens; scarcely can I jot down a few hurried notes.
3
There's not a jot of scientific evidence that it can help anything.
4
Despite huge international success, that tangle-haired teenage maverick hasn't changed a jot.
5
The numbers should not be altered one jot by the takeover approach.
1
It doesn't matter one iota whether it made a difference or not.
2
The theologians did not now subtract a single iota from the legend.
3
It does not matter one iota that she cannot articulate the clues.
4
Think not that an iota of all these terrors missed her mind.
5
To his mind that failed to diminish the moral obligation one iota.
1
He had given her every tittle of the freedom she had craved.
2
He abated no jot or tittle of his demands upon human frailty.
3
Do you expect me to allow scandalous tittle-tattle to be spread about Town?
4
Be deaf to the tittle tattle of your fellow soldiers in the ranks.
5
The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle-tattle.
1
We must allow ourselves a smidgen of nostalgia for that particular year.
2
She didn't, in fact, have the least tiny smidgen of an idea.
3
Gretchen thought she saw a smidgen of pigeon droppings on the brim.
4
There wasn't a smidgen of judgment or censure in them, just concern.
5
The best they might now hope-he might hope-was a smidgen of comprehension.
1
This season and last it has been a smidge over 90 minutes.
2
Her blond hair was a little shorter, her frame a smidge stockier.
3
He bent his knees a smidge, still taking the weight on his back.
4
I'm gonna run upstairs and clean up a smidge before my parents show.
5
Chocolatiers are a smidge different from your average chocolate makers.
1
But I think Tom Hanks a smidgeon more likely for the last place.
2
There was, however, some smidgeon of insight to her self-deprecating quip.
3
Lox spoke Spanish, too, along with Tagalog, German, French, Italian and a smidgeon of Arabic.
4
The PAC is entitled to a smidgeon of self-congratulation.
5
But one detected just a smidgeon of Alan's pomposity.
1
Nevertheless, we should probably feel a smidgin of sympathy for the band.
2
There's also a smidgin of rhyme and reason behind the reformation.
3
Was there even a smidgin of truth in his accusation?
4
The small print: not a smidgin on the press release about who is actually promoting this.
5
They ate every "smidgin'" of the fish at dinner, and their larder looked desperately bare.
Usage of scintilla in English
1
The only man who never had a scintilla of doubt is himself.
2
But no scintilla of the horrible truth reached his cautious, well-balanced brain.
3
The Latin diminutive scintilla, a little spark, comes from the same root.
4
There is not a scintilla of logical reasoning in defense of the operation.
5
There is not the faintest scintilla of hope in my doing anything whatever.
6
He provides not a scintilla of evidence to support his assertion.
7
A rebuff, the gentlest possible, but leaving no scintilla of hope.
8
If he have even a scintilla of doubt, he must pass.
9
We haven't a scintilla of evidence to connect him with his employer's murder.
10
The Hebrews in their servile period caught not a scintilla of the Egyptian faith.
11
Not if your local authorities have a scintilla of respect for the Founding Fathers.
12
Anything that would provide a scintilla of warmth was to be taken advantage of.
13
There is not a scintilla of exaggeration in this statement.
14
There is not one scintilla of evidence to back this up other than hearsay.
15
Give me a scintilla of evidence, and I am ready to jump at them.''
16
And is there," he asked, "a feminine scintilla of sense in that?"
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