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truth
noun as in reality, validity
Strongest matches
accuracy, authenticity, certainty, fact, legitimacy, principle, truthfulness, veracity
Strong matches
actuality, axiom, case, correctness, dope, exactitude, exactness, facts, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel, infallibility, maxim, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, precision, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, verisimilitude, verity
Weak matches
factualism, gospel truth, honest truth, inside track, naked truth, plain talk, unvarnished truth, whole story
noun as in honesty, loyalty
Strongest matches
authenticity, faith, integrity, realism, revelation, sincerity
Strong matches
candor, constancy, dedication, devotion, dutifulness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, openness, uprightness, verity
Weak match
Example Sentences
"We had to make a decision to make less profit and the truth is it meant less staff pay rises. We would love to have given a per cent more than we were able to."
His remarks were encouraging not because they comforted us, but he told a difficult truth.
Journalist Michael Kinsley famously defined a “gaffe” as what happens “when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
A Jewish former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest" by suggesting former pupils who say they witnessed his racism are not telling the truth.
In truth, the tie-wearing fox only became a cop because of his fondness for Judy, not out of a sense of dutiful conviction.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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