truly

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  1. adverb Sincerely; genuinely: We are truly sorry for the inconvenience.
  2. adverb Truthfully; accurately: reported the matter truly.
  3. adverb Indeed: truly ugly.
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  • Yet this truly was a case of humiliation and the football world being turned upside down. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • (The nakedness, incidentally, is all male -- after "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Watchmen," this truly is the year when an R rating for nudity doesn't mean what it used to.) —  California Chronicle
  • "This truly is an eloquent lesson in democracy," Bouteflika said in remarks carried by the official APS news agency shortly after results were announced. —  Forbes.com: News
  • (The nakedness, incidentally, is all male - after "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Watchmen," this truly is the year when an R rating for nudity doesn't mean what it used to.) —  California Chronicle
  • Running to nearly three hours, this truly is an epic of outstanding quality, and however off-centre the premise is - Pitt plays the Benjamin Button of the title, a man whom fate has decreed will live his life in reverse from the age of 80 - it remains consistently grounded in reality. —  Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
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  1. Early modern English also truely; from Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treowliche, from Anglo-Saxon treówlīce (= Dutch trouwelijk =Middle Low German truwlike =Old High German getriuwelīcho, Middle High German getriuwelīche, getriulīche, German getreulich =Swedish troligen), truly, from treówe, true: see true.
 

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