forsooth🔊

(archaic or poetic) Used as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully.

📑 Synonyms: in point of fact in truth to tell the truth

💬 Quotations

‘Saint forsooth!’ said ill-natured Mrs. Brady.

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Her eyes widened. She squeaked a bit. "Don't tell me she caught you bending again?" "Bending is right. I was half-way under the dressing-table. You and your singing," I said, and I'm not sure I didn't add the word "Forsooth!" Her eyes widened a bit further, and she squeaked another squeak.

P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing