Definitions

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  • noun One who tells the truth.

Etymologies

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truth +‎ teller

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Examples

  • Wow .... sounds like 'truthteller' must be really lonely

    Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy 2009

  • In a Dublin museum, I saw on one wall the words of a great truthteller, the sublime Dr. Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, and long ago dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral here.

    Michael Winship: The Celtic Tiger, Declawed and Defanged Michael Winship 2010

  • Dave, the truthteller, was it worth 4,000+ American soldier's lives?

    Iraqis cheer - and fear - U.S. pullout from cities 2009

  • It was used in trials by ordeal, for it was supposed to spare a truthteller and kill a liar.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • It was used in trials by ordeal, for it was supposed to spare a truthteller and kill a liar.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • We should continue pushing the Joe Wilson as truthteller narrative against the liar Bush although Wilson has said he thought Iraq had WMDs and the Dems dropped him like a hot potato in July 2004 when the Bipartisan Intel Committee report came out.

    Rahm Emanuel: GOP's Motto Is "Ask What Your Government Can Do For Our Party" 2009

  • Robert Reich, a truthteller who should be in Obama's cabinet, sees the core problem clearly and states it simply ~ "Banks will not lend because they fear borrowers will not repay; businesses will not borrow because they do not have adequate markets for their goods and services; individuals cannot and will not borrow because they do not have enough reliable income to do so."

    Stimulus Plan Doomed / Consumers Are Broke 2009

  • Allow me to translate for the rest of you: liar is Rovespeak for truthteller and thus lying is telling the truth, as in Bush dishonorably dodged the Vietnam War, broke the rules by refusing his physical, and was discharged from the National Guard without completing his promised service.

    Matthew Yglesias » MSM Rules 2007

  • The "being no child in me" -- what a wild metaphor for age, for being unmarried, the last of the lineage, being wholly accountable as a witness, a truthteller.

    A WOMAN IS TALKING TO DEATH Maggie Jochild 2007

  • It was used in trials by ordeal, for it was supposed to spare a truthteller and kill a liar.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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