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I was reading the declaration that Michael Jackson´s daugther posted about her smoking cigarettes these past days, outside a restaurant. And she wrote a sentence like this:
"Sure as hell beats everything else in my past though".
I get that when she refers to " sure as hell beats everything else in my past", she means that the action of smoking isn´t the worst thing she has done in her life. But I would like to understand what "though"means in the end of the sentece of hers.
Thank you, folks.
It would be clearer in context but I suspect the conjunction sense is what is intended here.
though
T͟Hō/Submitconjunction
- despite the fact that; although. "though they were speaking in undertones, Philip could hear them"
adverb
- however (indicating that a factor qualifies or imposes restrictions on what was said previously).
"I was hunting for work. Jobs were scarce though"synonyms: nevertheless, nonetheless, even so, however, be that as it may, for all that, despite that, having said that; informal still and all "it seems impossible, but you can try, though"
