All 8 Uses of
however
in
The Laughing Man
- At the time, however, it seemed to me that in the Chief all the most photogenic features of Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, and Tom Mix had been smoothly amalgamated.
however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, we Comanches got used to it.
- He had scarcely begun, however, when someone tapped on the bus door.
- However, the Dufarges had no intention of liberating Black Wing, whom they feared and loathed.
- One day, however, in a hoarse but eloquent voice, he appealed for help to the animals of the forest.
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- I just sat down in the majestic shadow of a giant billboard and, however tearfully, opened my lunchbox for business, semi-confident that the Chief would find me.†
- During the next couple of weeks, the picture—however forcibly or accidentally it had been planted on the Chief—was not removed from the bus.†
- It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent of the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)
(Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrastand but.) -
(2)
(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(3)
(however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way