Synonyms:
truthful, true
Meaning: expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
Synonyms:
truthful
Meaning: conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"
Usage examples
Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.
I have now to put it behind me, and be truthful for evermore, if I can.'
"Madam," returned the unhappy householder, "I wish that remark were strictly truthful.
Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.
'I love my little crocodile, I love his truthful toothful smile; It is so wonderful and wide, I like to see it--FROM OUTSIDE.'
'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'
Rejecting many tales told of the Headless Horseman--most of them too grotesque to be recorded--one truthful episode must needs be given-- since it forms an essential chapter of this strange history.
And that is why I told you that money is everything, that it is difficult to be truthful, honourable, or respectable if you have no money, a little will do, but you must have a little, if you haven't you aren't respectable, you're nothing, you become like me, a mere expense.... I've borne it for your sake, dearest.'
PERHAPS it is not necessary to say that the events mentioned in the letters are not imaginary--perhaps the letters themselves tell that! They are truthful accounts of experiences that came into my own life with the Army in the far West, whether they be about Indians, desperadoes, or hunting--not one little thing has been stolen.