What's the difference between really and truly?

Really


Definition:

  • (adv.) Royally.
  • (adv.) In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
  • (2) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (3) The latest story will show Bridget more "grown up" but she is "never going to change really".
  • (4) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (5) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (6) I’ve never really had that work versus life thing; it’s all part of the same canvas.
  • (7) But I suppose really we’ve just got to look to next Sunday.
  • (8) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (9) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (10) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (11) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (12) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
  • (13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (14) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (15) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?
  • (16) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (17) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (18) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
  • (19) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (20) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.

Truly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
  • (adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
  • (adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
  • (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
  • (adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
  • (2) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
  • (3) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (4) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
  • (5) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
  • (6) However, a truly aberrant intrathoracic thyroid represents a rare and anatomically different entity that requires appropriate modifications in approach and surgical technique.
  • (7) "We truly are living through a tale of two Britains; while those at the top of the tree may be benefiting from the green shoots of economic recovery, life on the ground for the poorest is getting tougher."
  • (8) It is clear that a truly spectacular increase in our understanding of the biliary circulation has occurred during the past 5 years.
  • (9) However, clinicians may be concerned that patient refusal of treatment is not truly informed.
  • (10) KR: She was truly in a conundrum because without the app, she felt too worthless to try and fix it by installing an update.
  • (11) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (12) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
  • (13) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (14) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
  • (15) There are questions over whether the testing authorities commissioned by motor manufacturers are truly independent.
  • (16) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (17) These three antiviral drugs, however, are not truly selective in their action and interfere with normal cellular functions as well as virus synthesis.
  • (18) The computer program has teaching and scoring capabilities, making it a truly interactive system.
  • (19) Daniel Levy, the chairman, was, according to sources, incandescent and there is the firm belief at Tottenham that Chelsea did not truly want Willian.
  • (20) This was done recognizing that no deformity, like no normal human face, is truly symmetrical.