sure enough

Speech parts

1. sure enough - Adjective

2. sure enough - Adverb

3. sure enough - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')

(used informally especially for emphasis) real or genuine

as supposed or expected

Alternative names

sure-enough

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Examples

Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; knowing the past is past, as shaping history, but with a new confident sense of the present and the future, where the decisive meanings and values will be made. Raymond Williams

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. Jean Rostand

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son. Dave Lombardo

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. Friedrich Nietzsche

Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language. Henry S. Haskins

Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile! As ever, god brings like and like together! Homer

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