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faintly

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In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

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One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy. George Carlin

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. Christopher Hitchens

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place? Charles Lindbergh

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One was blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name. Patrick Rothfuss

He that asks faintly begs a denial. Romanian Proverb

He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial. German Proverb

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