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bona fide

/boh-nuh -fahyd, bon-uh; boh-nuh -fahy-dee/US // ˈboʊ nə ˌfaɪd, ˈbɒn ə; ˈboʊ nə ˈfaɪ di //

真诚的,真正的,真心实意,真诚

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
    • : authentic; true: a bona fide sample of Lincoln's handwriting.

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Examples

  • Imagine his surprise when the person on the other end of his Zoom date was a bona fide introvert, 23-year-old technical government contractor Amanda Davis.

  • This was a bona fide country music legend whose fans hail largely from the reddest of Red States on the map.

  • Grand Lake, the town on the western side of the park, has a bona fide nordic center with 22 miles of groomed trails.

  • It augurs the arrival, in the midst of a fraught time for theater and other performing arts, of a bona fide new musical.

  • The 6-foot-6 shooting guard wasn’t even a lottery pick, much less a bona fide star, out of Michigan in 2016.

  • Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.

  • The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.”

  • A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a bona fide superhero.

  • Stephen Hawking is not only a bona fide genius, but also one of the most resilient men on the planet.

  • By the time the CFDA awards rolled round in early 1994, Moss was a bona fide star.

  • Nor can other creditors through filing objections to a claim prevent a bona fide claimant from voting.

  • The fact that you are here tells me that the wireless you got on the ship was not only bona fide but important.

  • Such relief was to be granted with due consideration and the bona fide intention of recovering.

  • It was an instantaneous apparition of absolute bodily substance, which carried its own warrant of complete bona fides.

  • If we leave Philippeville in the evening, we find ourselves next morning in the handsome roadstead of Bona.