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truthfully

adverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i//
  • /[ˈtɹuːθ.fɫ̩.i]/

In a truthful manner

adverb

  1. 1

    In a truthful manner

    He spoke truthfully.

    The common gay does well being less concerned with joining the Great Gay Bandwagon […] and more concerned with living unostentatiously, honestly, truthfully, and quietly.

  2. 2

    Frankly.

    Truthfully, I didn't suspect a thing.

    Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.

Etymology

Etymology tree English truthful Middle English -ly English -ly English truthfully From truthful + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more truthfully
superlative
most truthfully
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).