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(adverb) in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" |
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Synonyms: genuinely, really |
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(adverb) by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" |
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Synonyms: rightfully |
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(adverb) (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief) |
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Synonyms: forsooth, in truth, really |
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(adverb) with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" |
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Synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly |
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