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Definition of Only too
1. Adverb. To a high degree. "She is all too ready to accept the job"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Only Too
Literary usage of Only too
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (1874)
"CHAPTER X. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS only too GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF
HIS SHOES. EVERYBODY knows that the great reversed triangle of land, ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"... as he does with much or only too ,, .J .' , .. , .,, ' pleasure, unction, on
the special pleasantness of the pleasures which m"c}\of il' they produce. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"only too often it was merely a jugglery Comnenus Ducas Diogenes Isaac I John
Constantine X Eudocia Romanus IV Г Alexius II John II Isaac Manuel I Andronicus ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"of the Mississippi I should have been only too ready to accept the lacustrine
hypothesis. ... only too ..."
5. Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper by James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)
"prefer some other time, I shall be at your commands, only too happy in the hope
of passing a little time with you, Sir, in explaining to you a battle which ..."
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