subordinately

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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Both are probably of the most remote antiquity; both have been largely employed as an architectural ornament, and subordinately as a decoration of vases, costume, furniture and implements.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Blue is present subordinately in all tertiary and broken colours, and being nearest in the scale to black, breaks and contrasts powerfully and agreeably with white, as in pale blues, skies, &c.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

There were two subordinate actors, who played, subordinately well, the fore and hind legs of a donkey.

From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John

Though the man who will have his fee be subordinately honest,—though the man who will have his honor, subordinately rich, are they not evermore of diverse schools?

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John