Meanings
- In some way; somehow; to an extent.
These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.
1976, William Morris Davis, The coral reef problem2 more examples
On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!"
1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2[Henri] Soulé had decided to keep the Pavillon open, after a fashion, by closing down the salle and serving meals only in the bar and the nouvelle salle, with the help of the non-striking members of his staff—two maîtres d’hôtel, twenty-two chefs and cooks, the cashier, the hat-check girl, and a pantryman.
1953 March 28, Joseph Wechsberg, “Profiles: The Ambassador in the Sanctuary”, in The New Yorker, volume XXIX, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40Synonyms: in a sense, in a way
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseIn some way; somehow; to an extent.
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