Adverb : I would as lief go south as not.    From Dictionary.com. 

Souns like Matt madez menny frenz even in short lief, grate compliment tu him and tu yur reering uv him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houston, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

It's root word "lief" means a preference, desire or wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blah, Blah! Technology] Reference

Nor lief nor loth one, in the least to dissuade you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

Laid little blame on him, though lief to them was he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Was lorne of her lief ones in that play of the linden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

With deeds loathly, though he to him nothing was lief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

How lief it was to Gunther, when he heard these words!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

The lief to his people sought the land of the Brondings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

As lief Stephen as Maud, to me, if he can enforce order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brother Cadfael's Penance]

Through our lief mood and friendly the lord that is thine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Papisher! he had as lief Miss Jemima had married the devil!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

They'd jest as lief shoot a feller they didn't like as not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference

"'Cause if there's pie, I'd just as lief have that as cake.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home] Reference

"I'd as lief be through this, far out into the country again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [2005]

I used to think if they took away my sugar I'd just as lief die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

It would have been lief to the margrave, had they left it undone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Hulle het nie opgehou om vir hulle Afrikaanse taal lief te wees en.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"I would as lief have seen a woman die," he said, and turned away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference

"I'd just as lief dance with another girl, I think," said Nancy, timidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

Muted congratulations mixed with expressions of re-lief on board the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Matter]

Gordon Brown had as lief empty the bins as by Chancellor of the Exchequer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brown vs Blair - a decade ago] Reference

"I wish -- if you'd just as lief -- you'd go back to your seat now," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference

"We'd just as lief give it away as not, 'cause we've always you, mother dear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What Two Children Did] Reference

I had as lief he should have said, 'Thou shalt hang thyself for so many days'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

"Oh, Miss Moss, would you just as lief walk back a little way?" he asked suddenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

I had just as lief have some gingerbread and a pickle-lime, 'was her calm response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

As far as I could see, I would just as lief have Pedro's ill feeling as his friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Hulle het nie opgehou om vir hulle Afrikaanse taal lief te wees en Afrikaans te praat nie.    From Wordnik.com.  [FATHER SMANGALISO MKHATSHWA'S, CANDIDATE MAYOR FOR TSHWANE, SPEECH ON THE OCCASION OF THE WEEKLY MILITARY FLAG HOISTING PARADE - CHURCH SQUARE] Reference

Instead of "I had as lief go myself," say "I would as soon go myself," or "I would rather.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Hearken to my instruction, it shall be to thee lief, for I wish chiefly to help counsel thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman de Brut. English] Reference

Him is now on de 'lief roll and livin' in de old McCreight house, de oldest house in Winnsboro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

However, I'd just as lief, to tell the truth, go on M. Tulitz's bond for five thousand as for one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

It is no respecter of persons, and would as lief pick a bone in a royal vault as in POTTER'S Field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference