Try it, say ‘negligible’ slowly and see what a crumbly, negligible word it is.
‘His assets are negligible, a word that crumbles scant as rust.’
Source: Edmund de Waal, The White Road (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015), p. 306
Try it, say ‘negligible’ slowly and see what a crumbly, negligible word it is.
‘His assets are negligible, a word that crumbles scant as rust.’
Source: Edmund de Waal, The White Road (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015), p. 306