more or less
Meaning
"More or less" means approximately or roughly, not exactly. It can also mean to some extent or almost, without full certainty. Used to soften statements about quantity, time, truth, or agreement.
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more-or-less
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
All the wool is hair, more or less.