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truth to tell

intj

Definitions

  1. Actually

    Actually; frankly; as a matter of fact.

    • Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time.
    • Haggerty had his trouble for nothing. There was no clue whatever in Lord Monckton's suite. . . . Truth to tell, Haggerty had not expected to find anything.
    • In 1999 the American bishops mandated that if a college wanted to call itself Catholic, its theologians needed a bishop's good-housekeeping seal. And yet, truth to tell, the majority of Catholic schools hadn't really toed the line.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for truth to tell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA