merely

Marrying yourself merely underscores selfishness and self-interest, rather than enabling you to live singly in the best way.

Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.

“It was not merely the work in which he had constantly grown happier that he saw taken from him,” Howells notes.

I testified merely eight feet from this monster at a preliminary hearing.

As Rathod noted, SIX is not supposed to be merely the opposite of ALEC.

Janet's silence impressed Hilda: it was not merely strange--it was formidable: it affected the whole day.

We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.

Haggard merely played for the excitement, and Spunyarn because it was a lesser bore to play than to look on.

The America that they annexed to Europe was merely a new domain added to a world already old.

But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.