none the less
Adverb
Meaning
Alternative form of nonetheless
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see none, the, less.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.