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Anyways   /ˈɛniwˌeɪz/   Listen
Anyways

adverb
1.
Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.  Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, 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"






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"Anyways" Quotes from Famous Books



... say there's anything small about me. Why, down in the Coconino country they used to set half a dozen greasers diggin' graves, by cripes, soon as I started in to argy with a man. It was a safe bet they'd need three or four, anyways, if old Bud cut loose oncet. Sheepherders? Why, they jest natcherly couldn't keep enough on hand, securely, to run their sheep. They used to order sheepherders like they did woolsacks, by cripes! You could always tell when I was in ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... Farleys. Sort of small dead place, but there's business moving round it, so I got washed up here for a few days. I ain't had anything that's good yet, but there's a feller that looks like he might nibble, and take it from me my hooks are out. Anyways if he does I'll let you know. Plenty lot of rain, but I've been comfortable right along. Got a good room here and swell grub. And don't you worry about my roomatiz. All you want to know is I ain't got it. I can't give you no address, as I'm moving on soon, Wednesday maybe. But I'll drop you a ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... know how it seems to others, but for my part I never say them words to any one unless I really wish 'em well, and am willing to do something to make 'em so. I should feel as if I was a hypocrite if I acted anyways different." ...
— Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life • Horatio Alger

... happened either to see or to hear me, I don't know which. Anyways, they looks up, and—whew! they jumps apart as if a fire-cracker had gone off between 'em! Well, I tells my lady as her child is sick, and she jumps up, impatient like, to go and look after him. And I comes away too. And that was just about ten minutes ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... what I am. I was raised on hard knocks, and now I must git my livin' by 'em. But I axes no'un's help, I'm that proud, anyways. I go my own road, and a straighter one, too, damme, than I git credit for, but I let other people go their'n. You might have wuss company than ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor


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