noddingly

Adverb

1. With a nodding motion, possibly expressing agreement.
2. To a very minor degree; slightly.
   • You could name ten thousand goodish books that you might, without any pressing necessity, noddingly know; you might name a hundred authors that cultured persons would be expected to talk about. - 1938, Ford Madox Ford,...
   • You may find in the first few months that your budgeted estimates are only noddingly close to your actual expenses. - 1990, Sylvia Field Porter, Sylvia Porter's your finances in the 1990s, page 25:
   • In the primary and secondary schools, the student is taught the rudiments of literacy and arithmetic; is introduced to history and literature; acquires the beginner's skills in mathematics; is noddingly acquainted with...