truthful
truthful
Definition
truth·ful (tro̵̅o̅t̸h′fəl)
adjective
- telling the truth; presenting the facts; veracious; honest
- corresponding with fact or reality, as in artistic representation
truth′·fully adverb
truth′·ful·ness noun
truthful
Synonyms
truthful
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- say: Or you can make a realistic record that takes all of those things and tries to say something truthful about them.
Modifies a noun
- reporting: Science was built on the foundations of full and truthful reporting of observations and findings; not anymore.
- witness: The Tribunal found her to be a truthful witness.
- answer: My most truthful answer has to be, ' in every way ' .
- explanation: All that is needed is for MPs to say: " Pause for a moment, let us have a proper, truthful explanation.
- representation: But does ' true story ' really indicate ' truthful representation ' ?
- interpretation: History is not something like a script from the past which contains its own meaning or ' truthful interpretation ' .
Used with adjective complement
- stay: Stay truthful, but don't be afraid to say your worth.
- mean: Truth is the same as amen, amen means truthful, fixed and unchanging.
- remain: Since existentialism tries to remain truthful, the project of exploitation in any form must be wrong.
Infinitive complement
- say: When I was growing-up it is truthful to say that for those of us who were born into abject poverty opportunities were virtually non-existent.
Modifying Another Word
- entirely: The map was not entirely truthful ( the wardens have been busy!
- completely: I'm not sure your daughter is being completely truthful with you!
- totally: And my second, if I'm to be totally truthful, was ' Why can't they take him elsewhere?
- absolutely: A moment where he sits on a bed and cries is absolutely truthful.
- too: Perhaps I was being too truthful, but I don't mind.
- always: Biology Sam wasn't always truthful about her interest in biology.
Preposition: in
- speech: Those who have the most truthful dreams are those who are the most truthful in speech.
- pronouncement: Inform and reassure frequently and regularly, but " be truthful in public pronouncements " , do not hide non- trivial mishaps.
Preposition: than
- religion: I do defend the idea that science, at its best, is more truthful than religion.
truthful Quotes
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan.
All the poet can do today is to warn. That is why the true Poet must be truthful.
The soul fortunately, has an interpreteröoften an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreteröin the eye.
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