So much
Vaguely and so much are semantically related. in to a degree topic. In some cases you can use "Vaguely" instead an adverb phrase "So much".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- It wasn't so much that nobody else would believe the kids, so much as he was often the only vaguely competent and intelligent adult in the entire town.
Source: Reasonable Authority Figure -
His mother Cordelia inverts it in an earlier book, wondering why the Barrayarans value gold so much when it's only vaguely useful in some electronic capacities.
Source: Worthless Yellow Rocks -
Crowley, from Good Omens, although he didn't so much Fall as "saunter vaguely downwards".
Source: Fallen Angel
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