Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Alternative spelling of
more or less .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word more-or-less.
Examples
-
During the Cold War, for example, the US and USSR tended to throw aid money around as a more-or-less transparent bribe to get third world dictators to join one team or another.
-
During the Cold War, for example, the US and USSR tended to throw aid money around as a more-or-less transparent bribe to get third world dictators to join one team or another.
-
John Kerry had a proposal in the 2004 campaign that was more-or-less along these lines and it was attacked as a budget-busting, tax-raising, socialistic government takeover of the health care system.
-
Considering that the Syrian-Armenian frontier was more-or-less contested continually from the first major battle between Rome and Persia at Carrhae until the Romaioi were driven out of the region at Yarmuk, it seems incredible that the Parthians made no major moves.
Matthew Yglesias » Toy Drives Checking Immigration Status of Children 2009
-
Imagine If Via James Fallows, an effort to redraw the United States into jurisdictions with more-or-less [...] recycled idea says:
-
Via James Fallows, an effort to redraw the United States into jurisdictions with more-or-less equal populations that still reflects the ancestry of existing borders:
-
Yeah, I work in an office more-or-less 9AM to 6PM more-or-less every weekday.
-
If I put all that juice in there that egg mush would drip all out the sides of those egg whites, even if I had managed to slice them into two more-or-less even halves.
Sex Ed With Barbie and GI Joe Julie Britt 2011
-
Yeah, I work in an office more-or-less 9AM to 6PM more-or-less every weekday.
-
Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire is more-or-less around the middle of the pack.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.