Sort of! (2,2,4)
There are a few possibilities for this:
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">sort of</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for as it were that I've seen before include "In sort of" , "So to speak" , "Seemingly" , "As if it was actually so" , "you may say" .)