Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consistently telling the truth; honest.
- adjective Corresponding to reality; true.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of truth; habitually speaking the truth; veracious.
- Conformable to truth; correct; true: as, a truthful statement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of truth; veracious; reliable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Honest , and always telling thetruth . - adjective Accurately depicting what is
real .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective conforming to truth
- adjective expressing or given to expressing the truth
Etymologies
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Examples
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U.S. military commanders say they're just countering in the information battle space with what they call truthful and reliable information.
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The others headed their flimsy "Sad Accident," a title truthful but not alluring.
Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
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ANOTHER thing that proves I have always been accurate and truthful is the FACT that a guy claimed to be a Marine and he was arrested and charged under the stolen valor act within days of the complaint.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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If faith healers, televangelists and the like are permitted to express ridiculous statements about investments, predictions, morality, superstitution and the like, and to scam the gullible at a fearsome clip, how could the government restrain truthful statements from the Church Of The Personal Temple?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The First Amendment and Advertisements of Legal Prostitution 2010
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First off, no one here knows who you are or how truthful is your claim.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010
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Thereon he turned to her and said, O handmaid of good, fear not neither grieve, for verily Allah the Protector loveth those who protect; but tell me in truthful way thy case, as
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I am assuming that they will remain truthful to their word that once the Supreme Court rules on a matter it†™ s settled law be it abortion or phone numbers.
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Mr. Petzal-Being truthful is playing into the hands of our opposition?
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Once again being truthful is not being left … that is why you are always twisted into knots MA.
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Homer's description of the latter piece of marvelous workmanship -- which is often referred to as a truthful picture of the times, and especially of the advanced condition of some of the arts and sciences in the Heroic, or post-Heroic, age -- is too long for insertion here entire; but we proceed to give sufficient extracts from it to show at least the magnificent conception of the poet.
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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