as in honest
being in the habit of telling the truth
a truthful youngster who wouldn't just make up a story like that
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Recent Examples of truthful
That is sometimes truthful but that's always the reach.
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
The person entrusted with that responsibility was intimacy coordinator Chala Hunter, whose job was to help translate the series’ often explicit scripts into scenes that felt grounded, consensual and dramatically truthful.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
The Prime helpfully regurgitates Marjorie’s own life stories, though her daughter Tess (Cynthia Nixon) and son-in-law Jon (Danny Burstein) don’t agree about how truthful this pseudo-Walter should be.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Since that time, federal, state and local laws requiring businesses to make truthful factual disclosures about their products have become commonplace.
—Alan K. Chen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
The person entrusted with that responsibility was intimacy coordinator Chala Hunter, whose job was to help translate the series’ often explicit scripts into scenes that felt grounded, consensual and dramatically truthful.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
The Prime helpfully regurgitates Marjorie’s own life stories, though her daughter Tess (Cynthia Nixon) and son-in-law Jon (Danny Burstein) don’t agree about how truthful this pseudo-Walter should be.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Since that time, federal, state and local laws requiring businesses to make truthful factual disclosures about their products have become commonplace.
—Alan K. Chen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truthful
Adjective
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Sharing the video felt like a way to acknowledge that reality in an honest way.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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Most Americans are good, honest, hardworking Americans who want to make their country a better place.—
Tony Dokoupil,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Then there’s reality TV star Spencer Pratt, an outspoken Bass critic, who launched a campaign rooted in his fury over the city’s handling of the fire — and the loss of his family’s home in the flames.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The outspoken auteur, considered one of Iranian cinema’s greatest living masters, is still in the crosshairs of the government known as the Islamic Republic of Iran.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Truthful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truthful. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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