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Meanings of slightest fault in English

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Usage of slightest fault in English
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No one takes plunder and the slightest fault is punished.
Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
2
They say that I have sacrificed Cecilia without the slightest fault on her part.
Kept in the Dark
3
O thou of excellent vows, I have not found the slightest fault in thee!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
4
Rudel and Lisbeth were very strictly brought up, and were punished for the slightest fault.
Chatterbox, 1905.
5
I do not think, colonel, that the king himself could have discovered the slightest fault or blemish.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
6
Not the slightest fault escapes him.
Vocal Mastery / Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprisi...
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This was high-speed, high-risk football; the slightest fault in either touch would have ended the attack in an instant.
The Guardian
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They are all aware that the slightest fault, or a mere suspicion of gossiping, might lose them a capital place.
Letters of Two Brides
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Through it all, examine it as minutely as he might, he could not see that he had committed the slightest fault.
The Cathedral: A Novel
10
In the sense in which a hard task-master is not content with his slave, when he flogs him cruelly for the slightest fault?
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
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Let me give you a word of advice: If you have the slightest fault to find with that infernal nigger, shoot him at sight.
The Lair of the White Worm
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Haydn's twelfth minuet, which you sent me, pleases me very much; you have composed an inimitable bass for it, and without the slightest fault.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
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I had not the slightest fault to find with you for thinking certain omissions necessary when you first rehearsed "Tannhauser" at Weimar.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
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Would he think better of me were I to own myself to have been guilty, when there has been no guilt, no slightest fault?
He Knew He Was Right
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