Usually means: Genuinely sincere, without any deceit.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word honest to goodness:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. honest-to-goodness: Merriam-Webster
  2. honest-to-goodness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. honest-to-goodness, honest-to-goodness, honest to goodness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. honest-to-goodness: Vocabulary.com
  5. honest-to-goodness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. honest-to-goodness, honest to goodness: Wiktionary
  7. honest-to-goodness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. honest-to-goodness: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. honest-to-goodness, honest to goodness: Dictionary.com
  10. Honest to Goodness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. honest-to-goodness: Rhymezone
  12. honest-to-goodness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. honest-to-goodness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. honest-to-goodness: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. honest to goodness: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. honest-to-goodness: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Honest to goodness, honest-to-goodness: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (honest to goodness)

adverb:  Honest; truly, really; used to emphasize that a statement is true.
adjective:  Alternative form of honest-to-goodness [(attributive only) Real; genuine.]

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