Barely
More or less
More or less adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: the lot is 16 acres more or less
Barely is an antonym for more or less.
Both terms in one sentence
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At times the protagonist Kyousuke Kanou is shown as tall but more or less realistically so, but at others he's drawn so huge that he barely fits in a normal Japanese car.
Source: Not Drawn to Scale -
Furry Confusion: Many of the town's residents are barely-anthropomorphized animals that act, dress, talk, and are treated like humans, but look more or less like real animals, bipedalism aside.
Source: Anime / Princess Tutu -
Week 3 is more or less the same, outside of a heavy red tint and saturation to the point one can barely see what's going on.
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