well-nigh

But no, it was never supposed to make serious action well nigh impossible.

Certainly the long-term public debt would seem well-nigh unsustainable.

The left-right dynamic in the United States has made a coherent debate well nigh impossible.

In Ireland they have palpably and greatly benefited every class but the stockholders, and these they have well nigh ruined.

An' the old woman be quite crazed, an' well nigh dead wi' grief, an' has not been out o' bed for a fortnite.

That intrepid investigator, Bosio, was several times well nigh lost in their mysterious depths.

A person exceedingly hungry says, "I'm welly clem'd; I'm almost or well-nigh starved."

And then the young man is as inspired, and in impassioned, well-nigh extravagant language tells of his love for Mirèio.