adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
honestly believe
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Did you honestly believe that I’d be stupid enough to do that?
honestly expect (= really expect )
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Do you honestly expect me to look after the kids while you go on holiday?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
believe
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But I honestly believe she is dead.
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I honestly believe that some of these people really liked us.
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I honestly believe she feeds herself to it whenever it demands.
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I honestly believe that the majority of them were disposed toward peace.
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She says what she honestly believes in a brave, even foolhardy manner.
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If you can actually see yourself succeeding and honestly believe that you can succeed, then you will.
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I honestly believe there can't be a paper in the world with so much strength in depth photographically.
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I honestly believe that's what he thought.
say
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I can honestly say it was the greatest thrill I have ever experienced.
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And having hung around the set for a while, I can honestly say Tea has a lot of male appeal.
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Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I can't do a thing with him.
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I can honestly say I was not expecting it.
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Can he honestly say it now?
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Who can honestly say that Essex man was completely misguided?
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And can you honestly say you are unaffected?
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So I can honestly say that I've never known anyone who's ever played for Leeds.
think
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I honestly thought he would have forgotten the Marquis of Granby incident.
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Do you honestly think your man got shot yesterday in Braintree because the Attorney General was busy with something else?
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That's the only time I honestly thought I was going to die.
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But she honestly thinks that no one will pay any attention to her after it Is over.
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And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face?
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He honestly thought it was all right.
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I honestly thought they were going to win.
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He honestly thought that it would do so.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Honestly , it makes no difference to me where we have the wedding.
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Honestly , they didn't hear that from me.
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He needs to talk honestly with Billie.
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I honestly don't know.
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I honestly don't think we'll be in court all day tomorrow.
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I can't believe people honestly teased you about that.
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I was going to give you it back, honestly .
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Oh honestly ! I don't know why I even bother.
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Please fill out the questionnaire as honestly as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then, she admitted honestly , so could she!
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Dorothy and I love the city, although our children have quite honestly had some problems.
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He honestly thought it was all right.
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How could she honestly make this pigheaded man see sense?
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I honestly can't think of anything we wanted that this holiday didn't provide.
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I don't honestly know why he agreed to do the film, except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene.
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I knew it was wrong but I honestly could not make myself say yes to that man.