bona fide

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Bona-fide prospects, mind you, communities just yearning for transportation facilities, with tentative stock subscriptions running as high as two hundred thousand in some cases.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster

I resisted this largesse; and we compromised on 'No Charge for Bona-fide Schoolchildren'—whatever that might mean—and 'Fourpence a head for Adults.'

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir