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Discover LudwigThe phrase "authentically dead" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to emphasize the genuine or absolute state of being dead, often in a metaphorical or humorous sense.
Example: "After that long meeting, I felt authentically dead, as if all my energy had been drained away."
Alternatives: "truly dead" or "genuinely dead".
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The methodical investigation is always authentically detailed, as it is in DEAD MAN'S GRIP (Minotaur, $25.99) when Grace marshals the troops to handle the fallout from a traffic accident, involving three vehicles and a bicycle, that results in the death of a college student.
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, praised Carey's performance, describing it as having been "an authentically deglammed compassion" and praised the film for 'capturing' "how a lost girl rouses herself from the dead" and for Daniels' showing "unflinching courage as a filmmaker by going this deep into the pathologies that may still linger in the closets of some impoverished inner-city lives".
We were authentically nothing.
It sounds authentically felt.
Who is authentically Chinese?
The characters authentically drawn.
They're authentically dogs.
The mood grew authentically grumpy.
An authentically surrealist masterpiece.
Poor Rosie O'Donnell looked authentically terrified.
That was actually authentically creepy.
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