Truthful
['truːθfʊl;-f(ə)l]
Definition
(adj.) expressing or given to expressing the truth; 'a true statement'; 'gave truthful testimony'; 'a truthful person' .
(adj.) conforming to truth; 'I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so'; 'a truthful statement' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of truth; veracious; reliable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Correct, true, veracious.[2]. Sincere, honest, candid, frank, open, ingenuous, artless, guileless.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sincere, veracious, correct, accurate,[See VERACIOUS]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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Examples
- I must not take credit to myself where no credit is due, she said, her clear, truthful blue eyes looking alternately at Miss Halcombe and at me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Truthful we both were; he from pride and courage, I from a sort of abstract ideality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I promise you truthful replies. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mind you, she is a truthful woman, Mr. Holmes, and whatever trouble there may have been in her past life it has been no fault of hers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- How creeping and deadly that fear which could bow down the truthful Margaret to falsehood! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I have now to put it behind me, and be truthful for evermore, if I can. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Her nature, too truthful to deceive others, was too noble to deceive itself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Jane, I ever like your tone of voice: it still renews hope, it sounds so truthful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Truthful, upright, independent you are, as a rock based below seas; but also you are harsh, rude, narrow, and merciless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is able, and thoroughly honest and truthful. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would be better not to say that; it might not sound truthful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter--often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter--in the eye. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I could not perjure myself in her truthful presence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The red girl told us that we were without the softer sentiments of humanity, but we are a just and truthful race. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They show you only the green, tempting surface of the marsh, and give not one faithful or truthful hint of the slough underneath. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then, in a cold truthful voice, she said: 'I find myself completely out of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was only trying to be truthful about it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There you sit, silent and sullen--_you_ who promised truthful replies. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, now and then one, whom Nature makes so impracticably simple, truthful and faithful, that the worst possible influence can't destroy it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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