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[ adverb ] used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
Synonyms Examples "Anyhow, he is dead now" "I don't know what happened to it anyway, it's gone" "in any case, there was a brief scuffle" "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it" Used in print (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after_all making no mistake , because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering , seems to me merely frivolous . (Francis Pollini, Night....)I hated the goddamn army from the first day I got_in anyhow . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)Anyhow she 's coming_back in five minutes to do the room '' . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)A man gets old anyhow '' . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Anyhow , it was high_time the boy was salted . |
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[ adverb ] in any way whatsoever
Synonyms Examples "they came anyhow they could" "get it done anyway you can" |
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