merely
Example Sentences
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The actors in the supporting roles are mostly merely adequate.
India has labelled Pannun a terrorist, though he denies this, stressing he is merely an activist.
From BBC
Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon
It was merely the latest disappointment of an Olympics souring faster than burrata in the sun for Team USA, which is suddenly on track for its fewest winter golds since 1998.
Getting into an impossible-to-book restaurant isn’t merely dinner; it signals planning, cost and priorities.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
