merest

Inside, you can be sure every effort will be made to snuff out the merest hint of discontent.

It’s funny how, being so expert at playing grand narcissists, you retreat from the merest hint of self-promotion.

It’s a fig leaf so thin the merest whisper of a breeze wafts it away.

The truth, as anyone with the merest understanding of the IRS funding knows, that cut in the agency’s budget will open a vastly larger hole in the federal budget.

"Lapwood's music was evocative, deploying the organ's entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume," he wrote.