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"text": "It wasn't cheap. Anything but.",
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"text": "It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.",
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"ref": "1887, Karl Marx, chapter 26, in Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, transl., Das Kapital",
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"ref": "1890, Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Nice People",
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"text": "1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sinding (illustrator), William Archer (translator), Eskimo Life, Chapter II: Appearance and Dress,\nThe pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "一點也不"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīdiǎn yě bù",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "一点也不"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gēnběn bù",
"sense": "not at all",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "決不"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juébù",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "决不"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "kaikkea muuta kuin"
},
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"sense": "not at all",
"word": "tout sauf"
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"sense": "not at all",
"word": "tutt'altro"
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"english": "corresponding to “anything but something”",
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"sense": "not at all",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "一點也不"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīdiǎn yě bù",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "一点也不"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gēnběn bù",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "根本不"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "決不"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juébù",
"sense": "not at all",
"word": "决不"
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"sense": "not at all",
"word": "kaikkea muuta kuin"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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