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forsooth

/fawr-sooth/US // fɔrˈsuθ //UK // (fəˈsuːθ) //

恕我直言,恕我冒昧,恕不奉陪,恕不奉告

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : in truth; in fact; indeed.

Examples

  • If a man has hired an ox or sheep and a lion has killed it in the open field, that loss is for its owner forsooth.

  • The dates that are over, which are in the plantation, the owner of the plantation shall take forsooth.

  • Music mingled with the sound of merry voices, and forsooth now and again we heard the faint popping of corks along Officers' Row.

  • As if, forsooth, the existence of our nationality began and ended in Pretoria!

  • So I am to be ruind, because, forsooth, you must be in Love!