anyways

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adverb used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

From any + adverbial genitive of way (compare always).

Like as not you'll get it anyways, if he's mad. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
But we, if we have the toothache, or a pain in the foot, or if the body be anyways affected, cannot bear it. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I don'no' as you feel anyways as I do about it, Captain Mayo, but it ain't going to be no great outset to us if we make a leg out to Razee and see what's going on there,” he suggested. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day

anyhow, anyway, in any case, at any rate, in any event

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