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more-or-less

adv. (alternative spelling of more or less English)

Usage examples of "more-or-less".

Though puzzled by the phenomenon, I took it more-or-less in stride and followed him, noticing that this figure was somewhat dimmer and gauzier than the one who remained seated, a colored shadow of sorts.

His attitude toward the mission was more-or-less my own, and I started thinking how to deal with him once Childers was dead.

I shall begin with any more-or-less compact and brightly coloured biomorph.

Jack: if we start on this thing, you'll be farm manager and I'll be the more-or-less absentee landlord.

Hard to be precise with this Bessemer process, but it works in a sort of more-or-less fashion.

At any given time twenty or thirty would be around, and others came in and stayed for a while between jobs, and in the constant come and go they had a chance to carry on a more-or-less continuous conference on the state of things, with newcomers reporting what they had seen firsthand, and the rest arguing about what it meant.

I try to let this story tell itself in the sense that I more-or-less approach each book as it comes up.

She, clad in the rough, more-or-less cured pelt of a wolflike beast, looked like a cavewoman, looked as her ancestors on this very world must have looked.

The others all have varying but greater degrees of accuracy—the ones that got feed from Interweb, got pictures, witness statements, and the facts more-or-less straight.

The morning's talks with experts at the Museum had provided a more-or-less expert opinion that the book was probably really a century or more old, but had been less helpful in offering support for the theory of noxious chemicals or natural gases.

There were also some twelve thousand more-or-less tame Pueblo Indians.

The searcher's hull survived more-or-less intact, but secondary x-rays and high-energy subnuclear particles—things distinctly unhealthy for computers—flooded its interior.

That this City house was one of only three in the world equipped with a complete Patent Cosmo-Opticon or Theatrum Mundi in more-or-less working order, Hawksquill had known before she bought it.