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more like

more like phrase: used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.

Phrase

more like

  1. (UK) Used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
    • "Load of old rubbish, more like. Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places
    • Syllabics? Silly bollocks, more like.2005, Stephen Fry, The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
  2. Used to introduce a pun or joke about some name.
    • 'Notion Club! More like the Commotion Club! Is there any news of the Commoters?'1992, J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, →ISBN, page 254
    • More like the Academy Awk-wards, am I right?2023 March 10, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, “The Oscars' biggest controversies, scandals, and WTF moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, retrieved 23 Mar 2023

Examples of more like in a sentence

  • "Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.2005, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:
  • Bullshit and crap more like — very funny though.2007, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton:

Questions about more like

What does more like mean?
More like means used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
How do you use more like in a sentence?
"Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.
What part of speech is more like?
More like is a phrase.

Words near more like in the dictionary

  1. more honored in the breach
  2. more important fish to fry
  3. more is more
  4. more kicks than ha'pence
  5. more life in a tramp's vest
  6. more like
  7. more like it
  8. more money than brains
  9. more money than sense
  10. more often than naught
  11. more often than not

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