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Anyhow   /ˈɛnihˌaʊ/   Listen
Anyhow

adverb
1.
Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.  Synonyms: anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event.  "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet" , "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone" , "Anyway, there is another factor to consider" , "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle" , "In any event, the government faced a serious protest" , "But at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
2.
In any way whatsoever.  Synonym: anyway.  "Get it done anyway you can"






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"Anyhow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Europe— have already partially wakened, to the duty of preserving from impoverishment and extinction the wild life which is an asset of such interest and value in our several lands; but the case against civilized man in this matter is gruesomely heavy anyhow, when the plain truth is told, and it is ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... absolutely defenceless on account of their flanks being unprotected. He did not mount the lighter guns of the water-battery on his lines, as he ought to have done. Having a force of 800 men, too weak anyhow, he promptly divided it; and, finally, in the fight itself, he stationed a small number of absolutely raw troops in a thin line on the open, with their flank in the air; while a much larger number of older troops were kept to defend a much shorter line, behind ...
— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt

... shallow-thinking men with whom the editor of the ICONOCLAST should not be proud to herd. "What difference docs it make," they say, "whether I pay rent to the government or to a landlord when I've got to pay it anyhow? And what difference does it make whether taxes are levied on my land or my improvements, or both, so long as I've got to pay them with the products ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... hands anyhow," said Martin getting up. "She's to be some other body's nuisance now, and your maids have come back to ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon

... in abundance; and in the town their cultivation seems a passion. Some gardens contain sun-flowers, or little else, others are full of zinnias, flowering mallow trees, and balsams. There is no gardening aimed at, in our sense of the word, but simply abundance of colour; the flowers are planted anyhow and grow anyhow, the result being ...
— Holidays in Eastern France • Matilda Betham-Edwards


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