Meaning of at bottom | Babel Free

Definitions

Really, basically, fundamentally.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their Stock⟳, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer concern'd, that it was a losing Trade⟳, that the Fund at bottom was good for nothing.”

“I know⟳ you are a good man at bottom.”

“"Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave⟳ her to me."”

“At bottom I supposed that he had mistaken another book for mine.”

“As the New Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make⟳ for it.”

“At bottom, he does not accept⟳ any authority higher than himself.”

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