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honest |
honest man |
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honest-to-god
| honest-to-goodness
| honestation
| honestetee
| honestly
| honestness
honest-to-god
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective honest-to-god has 1 sense
- honest-to-god(s = adj.all) honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough - (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
THESAURUS
honest-to-god
absolute, actual, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, de facto, dinkum, factual, following the letter, for real, genuine, good, historical, honest, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, original, positive, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, substantial, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, word-for-word
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