All 12 Uses
nevertheless
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Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
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- Nevertheless we can't leave the possibility of suicide out of account.†
Chpt 1 *nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Nevertheless, in a moment of peril, she turned to her brother for help, and when things went wrong, they all hung together in a remarkable way.†
Chpt 5
- Though he neither drank nor smoked, he was nevertheless not so scrupulous in other ways.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless, I searched the study with meticulous care.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless, I was convinced that someone had gone to the chocolate box, opening the full one first by mistake, and had abstracted the contents of the last chocolate, cramming in instead as many little trinitrine tablets as it would hold.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless, he was an old friend of M. Deroulard's.†
Chpt 7
- He did not move, he handled nothing, but nevertheless the four watching felt as though every object in that rather frowsty place gave up its secret to his observant eye.†
Chpt 9
- Nevertheless, when we had resumed our places and were speeding along once more, he took the opportunity of giving Mary Durrant a further lecture on the dangers of indiscretion which she received meekly enough but with the air of thinking it all rather a joke.†
Chpt 9
- Nevertheless there was an air of efficiency about her which commanded respect.†
Chpt 10
- Nevertheless, after the most infinitesimal of pauses, she shook her head.†
Chpt 12
- Nevertheless I assure you that behind my madness there is-as you English say-a method.†
Chpt 12
- Nevertheless, Miss Lemon was perfectly capable of intelligence on purely human matters, as Hercule Poirot well knew.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(nevertheless) despite thatBased on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 was just stated, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)