slightly

adverb

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1
as in barely
by a very small margin I thought the first one was slightly better

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2
as in little
in a very small quantity or degree he was slightly curious about the identity of the wine, but not enough to bother asking

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“Slightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slightly. Accessed 8 Feb. 2023.

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