slightly
IPA: sɫˈaɪtɫi
adverb
- Slenderly; delicately.
- (degree) To a small extent or degree.
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Examples of "slightly" in Sentences
- I'm slightly fettered.
- It should be slightly soupy.
- The chord is slightly dissonant.
- The food was slightly malodorous.
- Motorcycle and scooter are slightly different.
- It was bitter in taste and slightly malodorous.
- It was then drunk just as it was, slightly effervescent.
- He gestured at the showroom, his expression slightly amused.
- Giles paused from his studies, his expression slightly alarmed.
- The critical theorists are slightly less effervescent than a morgue.
- The spindle has a length slightly less than the diameter of the ball.
- The length of the slits is slightly less than the length of the cards.
- 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.