Crossword-Solution: FORSOOTH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forsooth | adv. | In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. |
| Forsooth | v. t. | To address respectfully with the term forsooth. |
| Forsooth | n. | A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FORSOOTH | anagram | SHOOTFOR |
We have 11 clues for the answer “FORSOOTH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Indeed," to Shakespeare | 1 answer |
| "Truly," old-style | 1 answer |
| IN truth (arch.) | 1 answer |
| Indeed, in old days | 1 answer |
| Scottish banker with very old investment, surely | 1 answer |
| Truly, to Coleridge | 1 answer |
| Truly, to bards | 1 answer |
| Indeed, quaintly | 2 answers |
| Indeed | 53 answers |
| In Reality | 56 answers |
| in truth | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORSOOTH (5)
Sirrah, what mak’st thou here? Dost thou presume To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown? Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise? I seemed forsooth too simple to perceive The serpent stealing on me in the dark, Or else too weak to scotch it when I saw.
But toward the north beyond the Want-way King Peter was lord over a good stretch of land, and that of the best; yet was he never a rich man, for he had no freedom to tax and tail his folk, nor forsooth would he have used it if he had; for he was no ill man, but kindly and of measure.
Forsooth, whiles and again, within the next two years of her abode at Greenharbour, out of gates she went and alone; but that was as the prisoner who strives to be free (although she had, forsooth, no thought or hope of escape), and as the prisoner brought back was she chastised when she came within gates again.
Thou canst not even skin him properly, little beggar brat, and forsooth I, Buldeo, must be told not to singe his whiskers.
Dost think that thy God, in His anger, Will trifle with nature's great laws, And slacken those sinews in languor That battled so well in His cause? Will He take back that strength He has given, Because to the pleasures of youth Thou yieldest? Nay, Godlike, in heaven, He laughs at such follies, forsooth.
Quotes with FORSOOTH (3)
And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
I could not be a zombie. They had no thoughts. Their brains were gruel. They said little beyond "Brrr!" unable, even, to articulate completely what they sought." Brains," I said distinctly. "And I feel no burning urge to partake of any." Forsooth, the idea sent a wave of nausea through me. Therefore I was not a zombie.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1973–2023).