All 4 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Purloined Letter
- The fact is, the business is very simple indeed, and I make no doubt that we can manage it sufficiently well ourselves; but then I thought Dupin would like to hear the details of it, because it is so excessively odd.
*sufficiently = adequately (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- By no means, if, when the article is deposited, a sufficient wadding of cotton be placed around it.†
sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Our schoolboy replies, 'odd,' and loses; but upon the second trial he wins, for he then says to himself, 'the simpleton had them even upon the first trial, and his amount of cunning is just sufficient to make him have them odd upon the second; I will therefore guess odd;'—he guesses odd, and wins.†
- This discovery was sufficient.†