nothing but's Usage Examples:

healthy and varied diet, eating nothing but "beach food" is considered contemptible among the Tlingit, and a sign of poverty.

moment, possibly past and for ever, fatally perhaps for those we seek, has piled up layer over layer to effect what otherwise nothing but a recent deluge.

skin impressions found for some members of this group show nothing but pebbly scaly skin.

[say] nothing but good", abbreviated as Nil nisi bonum, is a mortuary aphorism, indicating that it is socially inappropriate to speak ill of the dead.

Jones states that by replying with nothing but quotes from scripture Jesus illustrates his perfect detachment from everything except God's will.

him with nothing but cowboy boots to wear on his feet while he tries to figure out whether or not he is invited to Tim Whatley"s "Thanksgiving Eve" party.

The dream-Alice comforts Molly by telling her it was nothing but a dream, and not to worry, because she's home.

The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher.

The involuntary colonists cause much trouble, knowing nothing but a welfare state existence in government ghettos (called Welfare Islands), where drugs, booze and entertainment, paid for by the productive members of society (Taxpayers), keep them pacified.

and, resuming their original poses, thus satisfying the now awakened chiseller of marble that all which had transpired was actually nothing but a dream.

[Orelsan] What interested us, was managing to write in this immobilism, on these days where we did nothing but where in the end there was a lot.

He is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested by Puthoff and Targ with CIA funding.

boundary settlement, grudgingly tolerating British sovereignty but never ceasing to consider himself nothing but an American.

Synonyms:

ne'er-do-well, idler, layabout, do-nothing, good-for-naught, bum, goldbrick, no-account, goof-off, loafer,

Antonyms:

cheerful, good, unrepentant, impenitent, unregretful,