bestness

In college football, bestness is the team that scores the most points and gives up the fewest points, leading to the most victories.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Leiter on the Top 20 Legal Thinkers: 2004

But many of these things are merely external indicators of 'bestness', and it takes time to accumulate such accolades and accoutrements.

Variety is the Spice of Life Candid Engineer 2009

The question of "bestness" in cities is tackled all the time in magazines, which publish a parade of annual ranked lists of places on various measures -- best place to live, healthiest cities, best places to travel and so on.

Alison Stein Wellner: Is New York City Not the Best City On Earth? 2008

The argument about the "bestness" of a place is emotional, based on a highly subjective assessment of highly subjective criteria.

Alison Stein Wellner: Is New York City Not the Best City On Earth? 2008

Presumably there is some basket of criteria for what makes a country good, and the country that has the most such criteria could be declared the best though is there a sillier argument than an argument about America's bestness?.

Barry Eisler: How to Argue (VIDEO) Barry Eisler 2010

You know smug: when people are convinced that they are the best, and are unabashedly proud of it, to the point that they can magnanimously praise others, so those others can illustrate, yet again, their own bestness.

Of Sentimentality and Smugitude, or Why I Haven't Written About the Bat Mitzvah Becca 2009

You know smug: when people are convinced that they are the best, and are unabashedly proud of it, to the point that they can magnanimously praise others, so those others can illustrate, yet again, their own bestness.

Archive 2009-04-01 Becca 2009

That's because summer was saving all its bestness for this singular event.

The Great American Bake Sale tannaz 2007

That's because summer was saving all its bestness for this singular event.

Archive 2007-07-01 tannaz 2007

Well, our talks are coming to be resumed by more polite conversation with a huntered persent human over the natural bestness of pleisure after his good few mugs of humbedumb and shag.

Finnegans Wake 2006