Similar words: fashion, old-fashioned, old fashioned, fashionable, go out of fashion, fashion designer, rafter, after all. Meaning: adv. to some extent; not very well.
31. THE first political columnist I ever encountered, after a fashion, was Walter Lippmann.
32. In the street it was usually possible to talk, after a fashion.
33. The party histories might still be true, after a fashion: they might even be completely true.
More similar words: fashion, old-fashioned, old fashioned, fashionable, go out of fashion, fashion designer, rafter, after all, one after another, after a while, year after year, after, craftsmanship, cushion, go after, come after, thereafter, call after, hereafter, run after, afterward, look after, afterlife, take after, aftermath, afternoon, after hours, afterwards, after shock, after school.