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However

adverb

Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession). Synonyms: all the same, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet. "While we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed" , "He was a stern yet fair master" , "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"

By contrast; on the other hand.

To whatever degree or extent. "They have begun, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the legitimacy of some of the opposition's concerns"

In whatever way or manner. "However he did it, it was very clever"

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"However" Quotes from Famous Books

... numerously-frequented booth in the whole fair, however, is 'The Crown and Anchor'—a temporary ball-room—we forget how many hundred feet long, the price of admission to which is one shilling. Immediately on your right hand as you enter, after paying your money, is a refreshment place, at which cold beef, roast and boiled, ...

— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens

... received my new book yet—however, you will in a day or two. Meantime you must not take it ill if I drop Osgood a hint about your proposed story ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... himself up, however, and refused their proffered hand shakes. There was a stern look on his ...

— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins

... In the soldier, however, this temperament is a dangerous gift. It led to reverses, captures, loss of convoys and other "regrettable incidents" being regarded with stoical composure as "part of the game"; and the victims were condoled with on their "shocking bad luck." It would have been difficult ...

— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... to-day, three hourly apprehended; doctors incessantly occupied, nurses, however unfit, not to be procured by any exertion of the half-maddened relieving-officer; bread-winners prostrated; food, wine, bedding, everything lacking. Such was the state of things around the new town-hall of Wil'sbro', and the gentry around were absorbed by ...

— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

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