after a sort

Idioms  

1. see after a fashion.

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after a sort

Now, there had been an undertaking, after a sort, made by the Dean,—a compact with his daughter contracted in a jocose fashion,—which in the existing circumstances was like to prove troublesome.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

He had been, after a sort, a freebooter in his time, but born an age or two rather late; and the law had proved over strong for him.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

She had accepted his offer while another offer was still dragging on an existence after a sort, and she had not herself been the first to tell him of these circumstances.

From Miss Mackenzie by Trollope, Anthony

And sith John Howland is after a sort betrothed to the poor bemused child, I think it well to summon him, that he may advise with us as to the sequela of this folly.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

She could read after a sort; and picked out the fat figures in the tickets of prices, for the most part correctly.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles