anything but

phrase

: not at all

He looked anything but happy.

Though he said he was happy, he looked anything but.

This problem is anything but new.

Examples of anything but in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The industry’s progress, meanwhile, has been anything but linear. — Ben Croll, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Between the classic crossbody design, gold hardware accents, and rich color, this purse is anything but basic. — Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 3 Sep. 2026

Extreme mountain climbing has never looked anything but miserable from the distance of a screening room, and The Other Side delivers mightily on all that scraping, straining, gasping toil. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

The scoreline read a routine 6-1, 6-4; the match was anything but. — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for anything but

• abut
• catgut
• chesnut
• chestnut
• donut
• doughnut
• groundnut
• haircut
• hindgut
• midgut
• precut
• rebut