not strictly speaking

ADVERB

partly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

at least partially slightly somewhat

WEAK

at best at most at worst bit by bit by degrees carelessly halfway in a general way in bits and pieces in part in some measure in some ways inadequately incompletely insufficiently little by little measurably not entirely not fully not wholly notably noticeably piece by piece piecemeal relatively so far as possible to a certain degree to a certain extent up to a certain point within limits

Antonyms

WEAK

completely totally wholly

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not strictly speaking

This being Saudi Arabia, where strategic ambiguity reigns as social changes sweep across the country, the government-sponsored event was not, strictly speaking, a Halloween festival.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2022

“Some of those covid deaths are not, strictly speaking, excess deaths,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

However, it’s not, strictly speaking, legal to sell CBD as a dietary supplement, per the Food and Drug Administration.

From The Verge ● Jan. 13, 2021

“Somewhere in a distant second hand dimension,” announces the title card at the beginning of “The Watch,” a Pratchett-based television series — not strictly speaking an adaptation — premiering Sunday on BBC America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2021

This was not, strictly speaking, true, but Harry decided against reminding her that Gabrielle had never been in real danger.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

not strictly speaking

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