Slightly
Very much
Very much adverb - To a very great degree or extent.
Both terms in one sentence
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Also slightly subverted in book one, as the Sophie is very much the Age of Sail equivalent of a rustbucket.
Source: Literature / Aubrey-Maturin -
The downplayed version of this trope (in which bits of brain are removed, leaving the victim slightly less capable) is very much Truth in Television.
Source: Who Even Needs a Brain? -
Slightly averted in that he was very much more fond of small girls than of small boys.
Source: Creator / Lewis Carroll
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