anik2000 wrote:
Otherwise means different manner /in another respect or way. but why this sentence use otherwise here? I can not understand otherwise here so can not make any understandable meaning here.
``The author of the book overlooks some of the problems and shortcoming in otherwise highly successful foreign industries.``
"otherwise" here means "except for what has just been mentioned".
This spoiled an otherwise excellent piece of work.
Their arrival livened up an otherwise dull afternoon.
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