bona fide

“A bona fide shrink would probably advise: Miles, you suffer from anorexile envy—one who covets the ability to exile one’s body into foodless bliss.”

Simon & Schuster: You Know Where to Find Me

“By now, Dante, Tronne, Tater, Bodeem, and I were a bona fide band of brothers.”

Simon & Schuster: Magic City

“When this heroic and spontaneous ground swell on behalf of freedom refused to recede, Poland’s Communist leaders had been forced to grant Lech Walesa’s Solidarity trade union an inch of freedom, recognizing it as a bona fide representative of the workers, and under more pressure even spoke of introducing a modicum of democratic reform to the Polish Communist Party.”

Simon & Schuster: An American Life

“In his letter from Allenwood, Rick Ames offered a subtler definition: A double agent may be of two sorts: one who was a bona fide agent of an espionage service but who was turned, tumbled or recruited by another without the first service’s knowledge or one who falsely gains the trust of an espionage service in order to serve another.”

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“Caeterum etiam earum rerum usucapio nobis competit, quae non a domino nobis tradita fuerint, si modo eas bona fide acceperimus Gaius, l ii.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Feif, for example, was a wicked athlete and a bona fide badass on the water.”

Beach Road

“If what you are looking for is bona fide qualitative equality of opportunity, to live up to Aycock's idea, to every child there should be reserved "the right to have the opportunity to burgeon out all that there is within him.”

Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987. Interview C-0035. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

“Pudding' was the code word agreed upon so the boy from Yonkers would know when he was having a bona fide adventure.”

Firestorm

“Also the name of the stolen property’s bona fide owner, who was known to her.”

Trouble Magnet