forsooth
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of forsooth
before 900; Middle English forsothe, Old English forsōth. See for, sooth
Example Sentences
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My friend recognized that a live football broadcast is, forsooth, a work of art—possibly the most widely beloved American art form that is never celebrated as such.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2015
Distrait, Mark appealed to his friend, but Robert's letters brought no solace�only the melancholy news that his own wife had left him, because forsooth he had been rude to an old hag of a spiritualist.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no more to say, Because you'll never agree That anything’s truth, But what issues, forsooth, From Holmes or the brain of McGee.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He thought that the banker was scaring himself, and seeing bogies where no bogies were--as if forsooth a little fall meant a great catastrophe, or all the customers would leave the bank because Wolley did!
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
With this one lesson taught from youth, And ever taught us, to get gold,— To get and hold, and ever hold,— What else could I have done, forsooth?
From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Miller, Joaquin
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