Bona fide and Sheer

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Bona fide adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.

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Sheer and bona fide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sheer" instead an adjective phrase "Bona fide".

Sheer adjective - Very thin and easy to see through.

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Bona fide and sheer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bona fide" instead an adjective "Sheer".

Nearby Words: sheered, sheering

The first book has a light-hearted cover, an only-somewhat-threatening villain, and while there are certainly scary, tense, and at least one bona fide disturbing moment, there's a lot of comedy and sheer excitement it in at the same time.

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