as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
I care not a whit about what other people think
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Recent Examples of whit
The show also begged us to care one whit about Nick’s secret romance with… Jessica’s sister!!!
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Mar. 2025
The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Mar. 2025
The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whit
Noun
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Even for those in the North who didn’t care a damn for the four million held in brutal bondage, or those who wanted a soft, conciliatory approach, the war began to take on new and moral meaning.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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At the start, the project required building a damn to drain the water from the facade.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Kershaw was on the winning end more often than not, but that didn’t mean the Giants didn’t also get in their licks.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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From bouncy dancehall riddims and hip-hop production inflections to tender country and western guitar licks, Treasure Self Love distills Iké’s wide range of childhood music into a succinct 11-track study of achieving wholeness by unflinchingly examining the darkest parts of your past.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Though married to Betty Jo (Jeanne Tripplehorn, a hoot in femme-fatale mode), Dale was rumored to be gay.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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Milvia Marigliano is a hoot as Coco Vulori, an old dear friend with some very loud opinions to express, and maybe the key to helping DeSantis solve his wife’s onetime unfaithfulness.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
27 Aug. 2025
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After all, that warped sitcom spoof has to be one of the most genuinely demented things to ever air, without a shred of warning and in the middle of the night, on cable TV.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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The film’s devastating revelations of intimate betrayals dispel nostalgia and sentiment down to the last shreds.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Whit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whit. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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