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honest-to-god
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honest-to-god
absolute, actual, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, de facto, dinkum, factual, following the letter, for real, genuine, good, historical, honest, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, original, positive, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, substantial, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, word-for-wordFor further exploring for "honest-to-god" in Webster Dictionary Online