Thesaurus results for FORSOOTH

forsooth

adverb

fər-ˈsüth

Definition of forsooth

as in frankly

to tell the truth forsooth, the rumor is true: this lovely lass and I are getting married!

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as in surely

without any question you're getting married without a penny to your name—a pretty story forsooth!

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But frankly, those kinds of invitations are never all that special.

— Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
And that has largely been shown to be well, frankly not true.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of frankly

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Leaders must honestly review past performance, confronting uncomfortable truths rather than defending old decisions.

— Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
The historian Eugen Weber wrote influentially of how peasants who spoke languages like Occitan, Breton, or Basque became—or, more honestly, were made—Frenchmen.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of honestly

Adverb

An exploded sunfish spread out in the water in thousands of pieces is certainly easier to share, offering another possible explanation for this practice.

— Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
So Dejan Joveljic’s goal in the 28th minute to break a scoreless deadlock was certainly a welcome sign.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Definition of certainly

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Cat Cohen would love to be special, just not too special — a protagonist but not someone who actually experiences too much drama.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 July 2026
That comes as a big surprise to those of us who know the system and have actually fought Medicaid fraud.

— Dean Lerner, Washington Post, 28 July 2026

Definition of actually

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Louis Varland being a better trade deadline pickup from that Twins bullpen than Griffin Jax sure is something else.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Kennedy, a shortstop who hails from Fort Worth, improved his play dramatically after undergoing LASIK surgery, and scouts sure took notice.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026

Definition of sure

Adverb

The Alphabet subsidiary filed 488 crash reports to the agency during the study period, of which researchers found 89 definitely or plausibly police-reportable.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026
These advances will definitely help build a future where AI models could actually be run on the phone with minimal power consumption.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026

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