"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mere adjetivo

mere + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 345
mere fact • mere presence • mere mention • mere thought • mere mortal • mere word • mere minute • mere month • mere day • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 75
(3) mention, footnote, name
Kolokacji: 3
(8) sight, mile, heap
Kolokacji: 3
(10) percent, possession, sum, gain
Kolokacji: 4
(14) formality, politeness
Kolokacji: 2
(17) chance, luck, by-product
Kolokacji: 3
(22) appearance, beauty, prettiness
Kolokacji: 3
(26) rumor, anecdote
Kolokacji: 2
(29) shell, stone, pebble
Kolokacji: 3
(32) machine, mechanic, artisan
Kolokacji: 3
(33) pound, dot, symbol, dollar
Kolokacji: 4
(36) memory, jealousy, association
Kolokacji: 3
(39) fragment, sliver
Kolokacji: 2
(43) pawn, instrument, cog
Kolokacji: 3
(44) expression, propaganda, slogan
Kolokacji: 3
(46) scrap, brush, slap, skirmish
Kolokacji: 4
(48) blip, backdrop, background
Kolokacji: 3
(49) extension, afterthought
Kolokacji: 2
(50) bagatelle, piece, lump, stump
Kolokacji: 4
(51) apprentice, beginner, novice
Kolokacji: 3
(52) whiff, talk, puff, utterance
Kolokacji: 4
(53) legend, myth
Kolokacji: 2
(55) rhetoric, image, metaphor
Kolokacji: 3
(56) page, tourist, messenger
Kolokacji: 3
(57) money, bundle
Kolokacji: 2
(58) prelude, beginning
Kolokacji: 2
(59) accompaniment, adjunct
Kolokacji: 2
(60) pretext, pretense, affectation
Kolokacji: 3
(63) illustration, excuse
Kolokacji: 2
(64) instinct, cleverness
Kolokacji: 2
1. mere instinct = zwykły instynkt mere instinct
2. mere cleverness = zwykła inteligencja mere cleverness
  • Instead it might sometimes seem so, because mere cleverness can sometimes recite words which might make them sound wise, like an actor or a drunk person reciting poetry.
  • Pitcairne was a good classical scholar, and wrote Latin verses, occasionally with something more than mere imitative cleverness and skill.
  • How much of the disguise was magical, and how much of it achieved by mere mundane cleverness, was not immediately apparent, at least to me.
  • And in the final novella in "Good Women" she transcends the constraints of mere cleverness.
  • What results is a species of kitchen surrealism that adds up to more than mere formal cleverness; its effect on us is vertiginous.
  • It ends up producing a good, solid exhibition, one with arid patches, moments of mere cleverness but also flashes of inspiration.
  • Mr. Ayckbourn is aware that some will dismiss his style as mere cleverness.
  • I detest folly; I detest still more (if I must be frank, dear Arthur) mere cleverness.
  • This resonant emotional dimension keeps his work from slipping into mere cleverness.
  • She has more than mere cleverness.
(65) conduit, passage
Kolokacji: 2
(66) penny, cent
Kolokacji: 2
(67) size, fashion
Kolokacji: 2
(68) taste, preference, admiration
Kolokacji: 3
(69) crawl, translation
Kolokacji: 2
(70) oversight, negligence
Kolokacji: 2
(71) prejudice, freak
Kolokacji: 2
(72) politics, anarchy, politician
Kolokacji: 3
(73) quibble, facade
Kolokacji: 2
(74) hole, pinprick
Kolokacji: 2
(75) smudge, streak
Kolokacji: 2

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