Trusty
['trʌstɪ] or ['trʌsti]
Definition
(noun.) a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges.
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Definition
(superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
(superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
(superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Trustworthy.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Faithful, honest, firm, reliable, strong,[See CONFIDENCE]
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Examples
- My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So he could make no answer to the appeals of his old and trusty servants, he could only repeat 'Gerald says. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now, we have cleared off old scores, and I have before me thy pleasant, trusting, trusty face again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- However, that Dixon of yours is trusty; and can hold her, or your own, till I come. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the old absolutisms the monarch was either God himself or the adopted agent of God; the Kaiser took God for his trusty henchman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My uncle has been for five and twenty years the trusty man of a rich widow-lady who has a beautiful house facing the sea. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Volumnia remarks of the deceased that he was the trustiest and dearest person! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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