Rankest

After molding the beds are covered with litter, that is, the rankest straw that had been shaken out of the manure, to a depth of four, six, eight, or ten inches, according to the state of the bed and weather; if the bed is inclined to be cool or if the weather is cold, thicken the covering. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

This policy is the rankest of income transfers from creditors to debtors. ❋ Unknown (2012)

To extrapolate a specific outcome from a study that did not consider this ordinance in this city is sophistry of the rankest (and most amaturish) kind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Mr. Dohrmann's revelatory tour of one of sports 'rankest sausage factories, lying is one of the less flagrant fouls. ❋ Adam Thompson (2010)

Once a cheater always a cheater .... they always can sniff out the most rankest scank. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inferior dope produced by criminal organizations typically contains stems, leaves and seedy buds and the rankest herb is combined with filler and pressed into bricks. ❋ Adrian Higgins (2010)

The Sasco managers' claim to "any insurance coverage remains the rankest of speculation and, consequently, they have no standing to object," attorneys for 14 Lehman executives said in court papers. ❋ Eric Morath (2011)

I don't know a single manager who doesn't view the departure of a key employee as the rankest of betrayals. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The bills, she said, reflect "the rankest form of hypocrisy." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A Pennsylvania minister declared in 1782 that “the rankest deist can scarcely deny the hand of Providence in our successes.” ❋ Todd Gitlin (2010)

These are not expressions of anything other than the rankest aspect of consumerism and have nothing to say to anyone. ❋ Lili (2008)

Wanted is one of the rankest, crudest, least artful impact-for-impact's-sake thrillers of all time — certainly one of the least original and most vulgar I've ever suffered through. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Too, too funny ... and hypocrisy of the rankest sort. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saying exactly how you're going to execute a military withdrawal of the size and complexity that leaving Iraq engenders is the rankest stupidity and could only be considered political grandstanding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That position, frankly, is supported by nothing but "the rankest speculation." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why NC and VA of course -- if you're an Obama supporter -- even though they have never in the past served as swing states, and it's only the rankest speculation to imagine that they might do so in this cycle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I really don't think it is, and to call it "one of the rankest displays of journalistic dishonesty ... seen in some time" is over the top and, for my personal taste, makes for the shrill Huffington style statements from which this site usually avoids. ❋ Unknown (2009)