right enough in English

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "right enough (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She saw me right enough (= so she can't pretend she did not)"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Norman Stone, “A Line in the Sand”, in Literary Review, section 449",
          "text": "This is now much reviled as a symbol of Western meddling in the Middle East and, right enough, it appears to have been yet another of those fantasies that arose out of the First World War.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Certainly, indeed."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "Certainly",
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          "indeed"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Certainly, indeed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "right enough"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "right enough (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She saw me right enough (= so she can't pretend she did not)"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Norman Stone, “A Line in the Sand”, in Literary Review, section 449",
          "text": "This is now much reviled as a symbol of Western meddling in the Middle East and, right enough, it appears to have been yet another of those fantasies that arose out of the First World War.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Certainly, indeed."
      ],
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          "Certainly",
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        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
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        "(colloquial) Certainly, indeed."
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "right enough"
}

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"right enough" meaning in English

Adverb