sheer
adjective
transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.
sheerly
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a word derived from
sheer.
Example Sentences
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“We don’t want to withhold images that would help people to understand what has happened in scenarios like these, but we also don’t publish images sheerly as provocation.”
From New York Times ● May 30, 2022
"That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something," Levine said in a 2002 interview with MTV.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2021
The charts could make shows more popular sheerly by exposing listeners to podcasts they haven’t heard.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2020
Many people felt that 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" were better movies — more adventurous, more stylish, more sheerly entertaining — than "In the Heat of the Night."
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2016
He began to realise, as he pulled the bed-clothes over him, that Spots had not been the minister of a fortune sheerly malignant.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
