Chiefly

Chiefly, I want you to be more frank.

The accident was caused chiefly by the unpredictable weather.

The committee is composed chiefly of professors.

This book is chiefly concerned with the effects of secondhand smoking.

His trouble was chiefly mental.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books on polemic divinity, most of which I read.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

"The Parisian police," he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."

If he is in middle circumstances his clothes will be chosen chiefly for comfort.

Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.