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UK
/tɹˈuːli/
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[ US /ˈtɹuɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹuɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with sincerity; without pretense
was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher
we are truly sorry for the inconvenience
she praised him sincerely for his victory -
in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
a truly awful book
really, you shouldn't have done it -
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
a genuinely open society
they don't really listen to us
she was now truly American -
by right
baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
How To Use truly In A Sentence
- A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.
- While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr Dombey and Son
- The relationship between a woman and her clinician should be built on trust, and the benefits and the risks of a procedure such as an episiotomy must be openly discussed to ensure truly informed consent.
- I have not been a learner of foreign languages for any significant lengths of time to be able to introspect usefully for the benefit of your discussion, but I have noted how on those few occasions, the change of costumes and locale has a truly powerful effect on my motivation, my willingness to be playful and adventurous, to take risks and experiment with new or old-new phrases and words. I is for Identity « An A-Z of ELT
- We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
- I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style. "To Make the Bears Dance"
- So I think of Beckett as not being religious in the usual sense but at least being alive, being truly alive, and horror-struck by it.
- The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
- You have truly surpassed yourself in all manner of possible ways!
- We truly are much more team oriented and friendlike to our children than parents have tended to be in the past, in large part because we too identify with many of the peer and academic pressures that kids now face. Childhood Unbound