unsubstantially

He had dreamt vaguely, unsubstantially, the while he had arranged his pressures and temperatures and infinitesimal ingredients, and worked with goniometer and trial models and the new calculating machine he had contrived for his research.

In the latter year he, cautiously indeed, but not unsubstantially, legislated in the direction of free trade.

Houses sometimes collapsed, and many were unsubstantially shored up.

Nevertheless, though he did not accept what the agents of the packet offered, fate took the matter into its own hands and rewarded him not unsubstantially.

The front-door also grinds on the sill; it can only be opened by force, and quivers in a way that shows how unsubstantially it is made.