I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
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Echt
/ɛkt/
Synonyms for "echt" (17 found)
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15 entriesadverbattributeauthenticityborrowed termdiscourse markerexclamationfidelitygrammatical categoryintensifierinterjectionlinguistic markerloanwordmodifierpragmatic adverbproperty
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16 entriesGerman loanwordauthentic artifactauthentic documentauthentic paintingbilingual termborrowed adverbcolloquial adverbdegree adverbehrlichgenuine leatherintensifierreal goldreal silkstance adverbtatsächlichwirklich
Collocations
17 entriesGerman loanwordauthentic artifactcolloquial registerdiscourse markerecht erstaunlichecht gutecht jetztecht schlechtecht tollecht wichtiggenuine articlegenuine leatherinformal usageintensifierreal goldreal leather
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Derivations
1 entriessimilar
17 entriesattestedauthenticauthenticatedbona fidedocumentedexistentgoodhonesthonest-to-godhonest-to-goodnesshonorablerealsinceresure-enoughtrueunquestionable
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Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
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An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].
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