Definition of whit
: the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit what some people will do for a whit of publicity — Patrick Quinn
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Examples of whit in a Sentence
I care not a whit about what other people think.
Recent Examples of whit from the Web
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Staying in would not benefit the global environment one whit, but instead, by impoverishing millions of people, would have exactly the opposite effect.
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Most of these characters were set in stone four movies ago and haven’t evolved one whit.
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Whit loves Japanese maples, and has planted more than 150 of these graceful beauties.
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And the consensus among the political class is that nothing anyone says now matters a whit until after the midterms.
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That ESPN’s Mel Kiper and CBS Sports’ Rob Rang handed the Falcons a B-minus for this draft bothers me not one whit.
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This has not changed, a whit, since the talking heads here and there have lost their collective minds, worrying about an American strike on North Korea.
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The Reagan and Obama teams were courteous and respectful, but in the initial period, the views of civil servants sometimes didn’t matter a whit.
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Most Congressional hearings drone on endlessly, without a whit of action or insight.
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Origin and Etymology of whit
Middle English, probably alteration of wiht, wight creature, thing — more at wight
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: a very small amount That tree hadn't grown one whit in all that time. — Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
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