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Example sentences for: honest-to-goodness

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But the N.C.A.A. is concerned only with breaches of its recruiting and academic rules, not with honest-to-goodness crime.
As a genuine honest-to-goodness Son of a Preacher Man, I feel qualified to say that I don't think Jesus is standing at the gates of Paradise shouting down "Send More Dead Babies!"
Hottest spot in the region, down by the American border, is Osoyoos, nestling in the mountains around a good swimming lake and pocket-sized but honest-to-goodness desert complete with cactus, sagebrush, rattlesnakes, coyotes, and horned toads.