honest-to-goodness
Example Sentences
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“Hard to say,” Clare responded quickly, which was the honest-to-goodness truth.
From Literature
I’d never thought to ask about the actual passage of time when you were on a real honest-to-goodness Glitch.
From Literature
“It wasn’t a squirrel. It was a monkey—an honest-to-goodness live monkey. I saw it plain as day.”
From Literature
It sells a slim control bar that magnetically snaps to the bottom of the screen, giving you honest-to-goodness physical buttons for music and climate control.
Her last opponent, Bill himself, pitches a private beach sword fight at sunrise “like a couple real-life honest-to-goodness samurais.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
