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sure-enough

[shoor-i-nuhf, shur-] / ˈʃʊər ɪˈnʌf, ˈʃɜr- /
















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Author De Hartog, a sure-enough seafaring man, began his nautical career at ten, got to be a brass polisher on an Amsterdam tugboat.

From Time Magazine Archive

By last week, when his one-man show opened in Manhattan's Bonestell Gallery, modest Arnold Friedman was making a noise like a sure-enough artist.

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One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret.

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They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story.

From Time Magazine Archive

Are they sure-enough chasing you, John?—for something that you have done?

From The Real Man by Francis Lynde




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