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True-blue   /tru-blu/   Listen
True-blue

adjective
1.
Marked by unswerving loyalty.  "A reliable true-blue country club conservative"





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"True-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... at last exclaimed, "would any amount of oaths took before a maginstrate convince ye that I'm not a pirate, but a true-blue seaman?" ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne
... you freely, Captain Gaunt, I don't value your prayers. Deeds are what I ask; kind deeds and words—that's the true-blue piety: to hope the best and do the best, and speak the kindest. As for you, you insult me to my face; and then you'll pray for me? What's that? Insult behind my back is what I call it! No, sir; you're out of the courses; you're no good man ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "True-blue" :   loyal


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