Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Genuine; real.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used informally especially for emphasis)
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Examples
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He was not yet fourteen, and he was accepted as the mascot of the ranch and made into a “sure-enough” cowboy by cowboys who, on legal papers, legally signed names such as Wild Horse, Willie Buck, Boomer Deacon, and High Pockets.
CHAPTER V 2010
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We tested it in RegOnline's Adwords ads and, sure-enough, "Seamless Seminar Software" got 10% more click-throughs than "Online Seminar Registration" ... along with a dozen other headlines that rhymed versus ones that didn't.
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Duke Power, it was a problem and presented potential liability of the city used the test and sure-enough litigation costs even if they won a disparate impact lawsuit.
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Duke Power, it was a problem and presented potential liability of the city used the test and sure-enough litigation costs even if they won a disparate impact lawsuit.
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Duke Power, it was a problem and presented potential liability of the city used the test and sure-enough litigation costs even if they won a disparate impact lawsuit.
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But boy howdy, they'd better get ready for some sure-enough heavy ordnance -- fired from distant ships, from far-flung bases and from computer consoles in leafy Stateside suburbs, where you can bravely kill some alleged attempted somebody-or-other (and everyone in their immediate vicinity), and still make it home in time to to eat supper with the kids.
Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon 2009
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One other little detail: Them backwoodsy hick farmers; they can sure-enough live without you.
Farm Fetish Rogers 2006
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To people like homespun geek, who ask, Them backwoodsy hick farmers; they can sure-enough live without you.
Farm Fetish Rogers 2006
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Car Line would be extended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only “a regular society spread but a real sure-enough highbrow affair, with some of the keenest intellects and the brightest bunch of little women in town.”
Babbit 2004
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But, sweethearts, you can take my word for it: Mr. Pit could play some sure-enough boogie-woogie piano.
Brother Ray Charles, Ray, 1930-2004. cn 1978
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