“Rather Be the Devil” by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown, 311 pages, $27). Scottish crime novelist Ian Rankin found a way to bring his character, the former detective inspector John Rebus, out of retirement ...
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The meaning of RATHER is with better reason or more propriety : more properly. How to use rather in a sentence.
- relatively or fairly; somewhat: it's rather dull. 2. to a significant or noticeable extent; quite: she's rather pretty. 3. to a limited extent or degree: I rather thought that was the case. 4. with better or more just cause: this text is rather to be deleted than rewritten.
We use rather as a degree adverb (rather cold, rather nice). We also use it to express alternatives and preferences (green rather than blue, coffee rather than tea, slowly rather than quickly). …
rather (third-person singular simple present rathers, present participle rathering, simple past and past participle rathered) (nonstandard or dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.
Both would and had are used with rather in sentences such as I would rather (or had rather) go to the film than to the play. Had rather is less common and is now widely regarded as slightly old-fashioned