Sentence examples similar to a faintly negative from inspiring English sources

A few years ago the term yo-yo club, or division one-and-a-half team, used to carry faintly negative connotations.

It was a faintly ridiculous situation.

can bring on a faintly nostalgic twinge.

It sounded like a refrigerator, too, a faintly throbbing hrrrmmm.

We'd always had a faintly similar problem with Northern Ireland.

They have a faintly nutlike, salty flavor.

Against conscience, a faintly ridiculous stupor.

There, in a brief idyll, they share a faintly comic exchange on an elevated platform.

Perhaps it isn't a voice but a faintly articulated thought.

For a while there was a faintly comic feel to the story.

Smoke gave the cool air a faintly burned flavor, an aftertaste of ash.