Words similar to rather

Example sentences for: rather

How can you use “rather” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Critics of the war observed, rightly, that NATO was protecting itself rather than the Kosovars by refusing to risk its pilots in low-flying missions or its infantry in a ground invasion.
The firm has always been a retail business, the product of commercial enterprise rather than aesthetic vision--a glorified jewelry store.
But then, the sad evidence presented by these pages is that Jesus is not merely rather stupid, but also a very bad writer.
According to Ramzi Binalshibh, Atta did not meet with anyone in Prague; he simply believed it would contribute to operational security to fly out of Prague rather than Hamburg, the departure point for much of his previous international travel.
some experimentally active molecules being predicted to be inactive) rather than overpredict it (when some experimentally inactive molecules are predicted to be active), since overprediction can lead to the design of drug candidates that lack efficacy.