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Definition of lief in English: liefadverb liːflif as liefarchaic As happily; as gladly. he would just as lief eat a pincushion Example sentencesExamples - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
- ‘I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician,’ said bibulous Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.
- Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
- As for the first, I would as lief pray with him as with any man.
- I figgered, an’ we had the stuff, we'd jist as lief knock together somethin’ tha’ didn’ take an expert t’ aim.
Synonyms with pleasure, happily, cheerfully
Origin Old English lēof 'dear, pleasant', of Germanic origin: related to leave2 and love. Rhymes aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief Definition of lief in US English: liefadverblēflif as liefarchaic As happily; as gladly. he would just as lief eat a pincushion Example sentencesExamples - ‘I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician,’ said bibulous Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.
- I figgered, an’ we had the stuff, we'd jist as lief knock together somethin’ tha’ didn’ take an expert t’ aim.
- Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
- As for the first, I would as lief pray with him as with any man.
Synonyms with pleasure, happily, cheerfully
Origin Old English lēof ‘dear, pleasant’, of Germanic origin: related to leave and love. |