What is a synonym for "after a fashion"?

Common synonyms include: appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least.

After a fashion

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Adverb

1
to some extent; not very well wordnet

Prep_phrase

1
In some way; somehow; to an extent.
"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!""

Synonyms

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appreciably at any rate at best at least at most at the least

Antonyms

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completely

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"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!""

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