fra: à vrai dire

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Meaning
means	(adverb) in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" in truth, really, truly
means	(adverb) in reality or actuality; "in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"; "painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"; "as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father" as a matter of fact, in fact, in point of fact