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bona fide
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  • The court did not clarify what constitutes a bona fide relationship.
  • Rosaleen came home, a bona fide registered voter in the United States of America.  (source)
    bona fide = real
  • Don't know which is worse, come to think of it, a bona fide agent of the Illuminati, who at least knows he's on the devil's payroll, or a high-minded professor who thinks his wisdom is greater than God's.  (source)
    bona fide = genuine
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  • Mom was carrying on about how it was one thing to live in a three-room shack with no electricity, since there was a certain dignity in poverty, but to live in a three-room shack and own a gold Cadillac meant you were bona fide poor white trash.  (source)
    bona fide = genuine
  • Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him.†  (source)
    bonafide = real (genuine, true, or sincere)
    unconventional spelling: Many consider this an incorrect spelling of the two-word expression bona fide.
  • A real, bona fide scientist!  (source)
    bona fide = true
  • Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.†  (source)
    Bonafide = real (genuine, true, or sincere)
  • Real, bona fide, greasy-fingers pizza.  (source)
    bona fide = genuine
  • Owen Meany used to say that we residents of Gravesend were sitting over a bona fide outcrop of intrusive igneous rock; he would say this with an implied reverence—as if the consensus of the Gravesend community was that the Exeter Pluton was as valuable as a mother lode of gold.  (source)
  • So Jamie stood up and turned around, and Miss Garber started clapping even faster, as if she were standing in the presence of a bona fide movie star.  (source)
    bona fide = true
  • Bona fide, hundred-thousand-dollar silver-pelt fox.  (source)
    Bona fide = genuine
  • Then she told me that a bona fide rock star had come to the hospital on my behalf.  (source)
  • The principal knew Moon as a good teacher and bona fide musician who had played trombone in Cleveland's lauded all-black Navy band, an association that came into being because of segregation, so he lured Moon from another public school.  (source)
    bona fide = real
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