bona fidein a sentence
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She was a bona fide star in the '90s.
bona fide = true
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Members pledge not to willfully disclose magic secrets to anyone who is not a bona fide student of magic.
bona fide = genuine
- The court did not clarify what constitutes a bona fide relationship.
- The IRS said it was not a bona fide non-profit organization.
- 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)
- 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)
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Rosaleen came home, a bona fide registered voter in the United States of America.
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bona fide = real
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A real, bona fide scientist!
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bona fide = true
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Real, bona fide, greasy-fingers pizza.
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bona fide = genuine
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You had to be a bona fide resident of the state, and the prize scholarship was usually awarded to a public-school kid who was at the top of his or her graduating class; but Owen was at the top of our Gravesend Academy graduating class, the first time a New Hampshire resident had achieved such distinction—"Competing Against the Nation's Best, Gravesend Native Wins!" was the headline in The Gravesend News-Letter: the story appeared in many of New Hampshire's papers.
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bona fide = true
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Kathy Hudson, who has conducted focus groups about the public's feelings on the tissue issue, says she believes that tissue rights have the potential to become a bona fide movement.
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bona fide = real
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Her downfall lay in being honest when she insisted the necklace was "nothing much," because LuLing mistook this modesty to mean the gift was quite expensive and thus the bona fide article, proof of a daughter's love.
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bona fide = genuine
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- Sean had no idea where to find such a person, and so he called the Briarcrest academic counselor, Linda Toombs, who came up with the name of a bona fide licensed psychological examiner—a woman named Jakatae Jessup. (source)
- Then she told me that a bona fide rock star had come to the hospital on my behalf. (source)
- Bona fide, hundred-thousand-dollar silver-pelt fox. (source)
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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.
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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.
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bona fide = real
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In Seattle, two bunk cars and a bona fide freak--a bearded lady--and this made him happy, for what Uncle Al craves above all else, what Uncle Al dreams of at night, are freaks.
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bona fide = true
- His teachers think he may be a bona fide math genius. (source)
- I guess raising eight babies of her own and several grand-kids made her a bona fide expert on baby cries. (source)
- Contact with the enemy was negligible, except in the case of one Marine from the 3rd Platoon, a blacksmith's son and bona fide eccentric from Montana named Don Ruhl. (source)
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A bona fide, dyed-in-the-wool, legitimate Institute man.
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bona fide = real
- But of bona fide wolves …. there was not one in sight. (source)
- It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. (source)
- Even though his speech was repudiated by many in the North, the very fact that one who represented such a belligerent constituency would appeal for understanding in the name of unity and patriotism was recognized in Washington and throughout the South as a bona fide assurance of Southern rights. (source)
- "May I sit down?" he asked, evidently satisfied that a bona fide investigatory agency would operate out of such a slum.† (source)
- He was one of your bona fide good dogs.† (source)
- There was a headline in the paper yesterday that said half of our boats "of many different kinds and sizes" have been released to the army, navy, air force, and to "bona fide white fishermen."† (source)
- I'm a bona fide supraman.'† (source)
- Bona fide, 100 percent dream.† (source)
- They had to be as close to bona fide Olympians as we could find, the kind of clients the Jackal doesn't get and never got.† (source)
- Lord Carmarthen readily agreed that by the Paris Treaty His Majesty's armed forces were to depart from the United States "with all convenient speed," but, as he liked also to point out, the same treaty stipulated that creditors on either side "shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling of all bona fide debts."† (source)
- If anyone is able to check on him, his credentials appear to be bona fide.† (source)
- West stalled in a fussy voice until two bona fide Monarch clerks innocently finished their drinks and departed.† (source)
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Rosaleen liked to say May was a bona fide candidate for the nuthouse, but she still took to her.
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bona fide = true (real)
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We've got a bona fide veterinarian here.
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bona fide = genuine
- It offered a set of bona fide heroes rather than simply a dearth of villains. (source)
- 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)
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My early years, darkened by the shadows and regional superstitions of a bona fide cracker boy, act as a sobering agent during the execrable periods of self-righteousness that I inflict on those around me.
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bona fide = true
- We've simply received all information as bona fide data, stored and accepted as valid.† (source)
- You're inventive, so find a parallel here and for Christ's sake pull the trigger like you did with him, our bona fide Jason Bourne!† (source)
- No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration.† (source)
- It was a question it appears—a bona fide question!† (source)
- Mr. Harford sometimes formed one of a little detachment which left the city shortly after noon on Sunday with the purpose of arriving as soon as possible at some public-house on the outskirts of the city where its members duly qualified themselves as bona fide travellers.† (source)
- You are an unusual sort of a person; you don't lie at every step, as some men do; in fact, you don't lie at all, and there is a matter in which I need a true and sincere friend, for I really may claim to be among the number of bona fide unfortunates just now."† (source)
- ------------------------------------------------_ As the President finished reading the paper (which I beg leave to assure my readers is a bona fide copy of one written by bona fide girls once upon a time), a round of applause followed, and then Mr. Snodgrass rose to make a proposition.† (source)
- Some were bona fide ledges, and others merely a foothold for lichens. (source)
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Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him.†
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unconventional spelling: Many consider this an incorrect spelling of the two-word expression bona fide.
- 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)
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