"right enough" meaning in English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} right enough (not comparable)
  1. (colloquial) Certainly, indeed. Tags: colloquial, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-right_enough-en-adv-Q8J8nvko Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "She saw me right enough (= so she can't pretend she did not)"
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          "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.",
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        "Certainly, indeed."
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        "(colloquial) Certainly, indeed."
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