on the whole

ADVERB
  1. with everything considered (and neglecting details)
    altogether, I'm sorry it happened
    all in all, it's not so bad
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How To Use on the whole In A Sentence

  • But on the whole, the circulator is a tremendous asset and a great deal for city residents as it is funded mostly by the 2008 increase in the parking tax. Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs
  • These analyses were, on the whole, applauded by fans. Times, Sunday Times
  • In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
  • He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
  • But folk art, on the whole, stood for a democracy of aspiration. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Good love makes u see the whole world from one person while bad love makes u abandon the whole world for one person.
  • The outcome of better science should be the betterment of society, on the whole, and an improvement in every individual's life.
  • New guidelines to independent appeals panels call for them to take into account the impact on the whole school of bringing back excluded pupils, and not to reinstate pupils on a technicality.
  • On the whole the maxillopodan groups Ostracoda and Cirripedia and the Malacostraca have left the most significant fossil records.
  • But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind. The Purcell Papers
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