slightly

IPA: sɫˈaɪtɫi

Examples of "slightly" in Sentences

He gestured at the showroom, his expression slightly amused.
Giles paused from his studies, his expression slightly alarmed.
Cutting to the chase gets to the heart of the matter, but we use the phrase slightly differently from what it commonly means.
While I might have exaggerated that speed slightly for dramatic input, the operative word is 'slightly* and the truth is not far out.
Sheikh Mohammed, who now famously gave an unraced yearling called Carlton House to the Queen, offered his encouragement to Her Majesty via Twitter this week, even if he got her title slightly wrong.
My own atheism I may be using the term slightly incorrectly is not based on the existence or otherwise of god, which one cannot prove either way, but on the much more self evident facts that there is no personal salvation.
On the whole, I am far from certain that the account-current of honesty is not slightly -- honesty very _slightly_ leavens either transaction -- in favour of the non-paying States, as men do sometimes borrow with good intentions, and fail, from inability, to pay; whereas, in the whole course of my experience, I never knew a captor of a ship who intended to give back any of the prize-money, if he could help it.