Adverb
Even; suggests a minimum, especially regarding what might be expected.
Synonym: as much as
Without so much as asking, he walked into the office and started digging through their files.
If she so much as looked at another man, I’d divorce her!
But rather.
I'm not staring at her breasts so much as admiring her brooch.
Nothing destroys a person so much as prolonged inactivity. Aristotle
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power. John Chrysostom
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Ambrose
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. Elbert Hubbard
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so. François de La Rochefoucauld
He won't give us so much as the skin. Latin Proverb