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Synonyms for perhaps

maybe

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Synonyms for perhaps

possibly but not certainly

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Synonyms for perhaps

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Colin's tantrum had passed and he was weak and worn out with crying and this perhaps made him feel gentle.
"Perhaps they are coming up through the grass--perhaps there are clusters of purple crocuses and gold ones--even now.
And it is, perhaps, being too charitable to conclude that such persons mean anything more by their marriage than to please their carnal appetites; for the satisfaction of which, we are taught, it was not ordained.
Worldly prudence, perhaps, exacts some consideration on this head; nor will I absolutely and altogether condemn it.
'Is that you, Markham?' said he, startled and confounded at the apparition - perhaps, too, at the wildness of my looks.
This was no time or place for explanation or discourse: we had already stood long enough to excite the wonder of the village sight-seers, and perhaps the wrath of the attendant bridal party; though, of course, all this passed in a much shorter time than I have taken to relate, or even than you will take to read it.
It was so late; he would be asleep perhaps. She would awaken him with a kiss.
Meantime the body of the ship's commander is being enfeebled by want of appetite; at least, such is my experience, though "enfeebled" is perhaps not exactly the word.
If anything it is perhaps a little sympathy that the writer expects for his buried youth, as he lives it over again at the end of his insignificant course on this earth.
But perhaps Mills, with his penetration, understood very well the nature he was dealing with.
There were local tales of his having exerted his powers of prognosis, or perhaps you would say diagnosis; and it was said that in every instance the person whose friends he had warned had died suddenly at the appointed time, and from no assignable cause.
It was a rather gloomy dwelling for one who was neither a recluse nor a student, and I think it gave something of its character to me-- perhaps some of its former occupant's character; for always I felt in it a certain melancholy that was not in my natural disposition, nor, I think, due to loneliness.
Perhaps one of the most interesting of these Metrical Romances is that of Havelok the Dane.
In the heart of the Japanese comes the love of his parents, the love of his wife and children, and, deepest, perhaps, of all the emotions he knows, the strong magnificent background to his life, the love of the country which bore him, which shelters them.
"Perhaps you can get me an invitation to Princess Ozma's birthday celebration, which will be the grandest royal function ever held in Fairyland.