Chiefly
In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
For the most part; mostly.
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Chiefly Quotations
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes
Chiefly Translations
chiefly in Afrikaans is hoofsaaklik, veral
chiefly in Dutch is inzonderheid
chiefly in Finnish is etenkin
chiefly in French is principalement
chiefly in Italian is principalmente, in prima linea
chiefly in Latin is precipue, praecipue, presertim praesertim
chiefly in Portuguese is principalmente
chiefly in Spanish is sobretodo, principalmente
chiefly in Swedish is huvudsakligen
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