On-the-whole Definition

adverb

(idiomatic) For the most part; apart from some insignificant details.

The language was wrong for the period, but, on the whole, I enjoyed the film.
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On-the-whole Sentence Examples

  • The summer is hot, but on the whole the climate is very healthy.

  • The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole.

  • Between optimism and pessimism is the theory of "meliorism," according to which the world on the whole makes progress in goodness.

  • The weather on the whole is remarkably dry.

  • Grote maintained that on the whole the allies had little ground for complaint; but in so doing he rather seems to leave out of account the Greek's dislike of external discipline.

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