truthfulness

Example Sentences

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Truthfulness is part of how we see ourselves as a nation: Asked to describe the ideal American, “honest” usually comes right before “hard-working,” “neighborly” and “brave.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2021

Truthfulness, a touchstone for Robbins, inevitably became a criterion when watching the Robbins tributes.

From New York Times • May 4, 2018

Truthfulness will be for the jury to decide, but it’s clear somebody’s lying, or everybody is.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

Mottoes proclaim, the thoughts of pious Mr. Robinson in words like these: "Honesty and Truthfulness combined with Speed and Correctness are necessary to make good Business Men and Women."

From Time Magazine Archive

Truthfulness may be defined as the correspondence between thought and word and fact.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix