All 50 Uses of
however
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Mama, however, had large feet, and around the house she wore men's shoes, usually without strings, and a dusting or mobcap like somebody's fanciful cotton effigy of the form of the brain.†
Chpt 1however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- She borrowed, however, from her family.†
Chpt 3
- As something lewd that had, however, to be faced.†
Chpt 4
- Like so many loving, humane people who, however, have to live, just like everyone else, and count on tougher souls to carry them along.†
Chpt 4
- By now, however, it didn't matter much.†
Chpt 4
- The Einhorns were his ex-wife's relatives; they, however, had never taken sides in the divorce.†
Chpt 5
- Einhorn, however, didn't have such sentiments at all, whatever sentiments he entertained on other scores.†
Chpt 5
- He listened, however, to the noise against him, startled in the eyes, and plunged out with more spirit the second round, carrying the fight to Jaworski, reckless, with slum motions of deadliness in his giant white knots.†
Chpt 6
- This was different, however, from the times of crowds praying below in shawls and business hats, and the jinking of the bells on the velvet dresses of the two-legged scrolls.†
Chpt 6
- He was taken to court, however, and lost, legal costs and all.†
Chpt 7
- Conversely, however, I had my eye on him.†
Chpt 7
- This unknown, superfluous free power streaming around a cold, wet, blackened Chicago day, from things laid out to be still, incapable, however, of being still.†
Chpt 8
- The eyes, however, trained so they were foreign to anything but their long-time function, they had no personal regard.†
Chpt 9
- Obedient in the smallest point, however, she shut the doors, and I was alone with him.†
Chpt 10
- I did find Kreindl at home, however, as he sat at a late breakfast of smoked fish and rolls.†
Chpt 10
- Organization was marvelous, however.†
Chpt 10however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- Seeing that he needed me to be similar, however, I kept quiet.†
Chpt 10however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Padilla was, however, down on him for his condescension to us; to me more than to him, for Frazer was aware that Padilla was a genius at mathematical physics.†
Chpt 11
- She didn't, however, want to bring charges, and she tried to speak a piece to the judge and was prevented.†
Chpt 11
- That humiliated, bandy-legged, weak-haired, and injured-in-the-eyes Sylvester, however, the subterranean draftsman and comedy commissar of a Soviet-America-to-be, teaching himself the manner and even the winner's smile and confidence, why, he was going to blast off the old travertine and let the gold and marble shine for a fresh humanity.†
Chpt 11
- As he had said this to me, however, they were watching and were suspicious because I didn't grab a piece of this love feast.†
Chpt 11
- At first, however, he wanted me with him constantly.†
Chpt 11
- He wasn't all brashness, however, and headlong despair, Simon.†
Chpt 11
- Not that he really distrusted the director and his wife; he wanted them, however, to realize that he did not have to depend on their honesty.†
Chpt 11
- He wouldn't, however, take any excuses from me.†
Chpt 12
- This time, however, I didn't stir.†
Chpt 12
- Kayo, however, was a much more intelligent man than the doctor, and though as he stood in my room on bare weight-flattened feet in undershirt, the hair in tufts on his shoulders, and that large face from which everyone was reproached for letting him down and coming short of the mark—though, in other words, he was the hard figure of prejudice, there was still in him an extra effort of justice, a channel kept open.†
Chpt 12
- "It's you yourself that don't keep your own secrets," I said, trying to be easy about it, however.†
Chpt 12however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- She, however, had not much thought of me tonight.†
Chpt 12however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Ice, however, didn't help much.†
Chpt 12
- It was, however, a short day, the last of the year.†
Chpt 12
- This angry idea was momentary, however.†
Chpt 12however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- In this thought there was a good measure of poking fun, with, however, the fact that I was stirred in all kinds of ways, including the soft shuffle in the treetop of leaves just broken out of the thick red beaks.†
Chpt 13however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- I was, however, ready even to become a hunter.†
Chpt 14
- She knew, however, that I could no more stay here and let her go than I could put out my eyes.†
Chpt 14
- He was, however, powerfully handsome, with his onward-turned head and buff and white feathers among the darker, his eyes that were gruesome jewels and meant nothing in their little lines but cruelty, and that he was here for his own need; he was entirely a manifesto of that.
Chpt 15 *however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Thea, however, couldn't see any arguments, only her objective with the bird, which she never doubted that I shared.†
Chpt 15however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Mostly a lot of riffraff turned up, however, in observance of his troubles, which were by then public and had been for some time.†
Chpt 17
- It was Thea, however, of whom the thought burdened me, just as much.†
Chpt 18
- Admitted that I always tried to elicit what I hoped for; how did people, however, seldom fail to supply it so mysteriously?†
Chpt 18
- Minutes counted now; I remembered, however, seeing the Mexican faces that listened to this wrangle as if it were the New Testament.†
Chpt 18
- She did say, however, "Someday, will you come see me?"†
Chpt 18
- There, however, in Chicago, I thought how pleased I was I didn't have to have secrets from her; now there was a dusky sort of fluctuation back from this, as if it were fatal to be without hidden things.†
Chpt 18
- This was how he covered up his zeal, which I felt, however, powerfully trembling in the back.
Chpt 21however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- " Crossing her hands in her lap and bringing her knees together around them—which I admired and wished she would, however, not do—she said, "Nobody should pretend to be always one hundred per cent honest.†
Chpt 23however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- This piece of news was improvised; it did a lot of good, however, and I went on talking, so extremely salty you'd have taken me for an old sailor.†
Chpt 25
- I studied it with devotion and learned a lot about bees and honey, which I knew, however, wouldn't likely be of any practical use.†
Chpt 26
- It must be clear, however, that I am a person of hope, and now my hopes have settled themselves upon children and a settled life.†
Chpt 26
- However, I believe her arrangement with Kreindl stood for some time after, and Kreindl didn't quit.†
Chpt 2
- However, her painful, dreadful, toothless, gape-gummed crying the cry of judgment in the lock of death worked hard on me.†
Chpt 3
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
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and arguably incorrectly), however can be used to intensify the word how, as when one says "However did you find her?" Grammarians would suggest using two words for that usage: "How ever did you find her?"