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- nonstandardMost alone or isolated.
Crosby declined and, as Winchell walked away, he seemed to Crosby "the alonest man I ever did see."
2000, Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio2 more examples
The alonest man on the face of the globe! I was stopping in a cheap lodging downtown, in a dreary, drab little cell of a bedroom...
1922, Elizabeth Frazer, The secret partnerI was the alonest. I heard the walking of shoes and I looked in the direction of the noise. It was the counterman.
1967, Piri Thomas, Down these mean streets
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alonest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alonest
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