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Synonyms for truth

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for truth

freedom from deceit or falseness

the quality of being actual or factual

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for truth

a fact that has been verified

conformity to reality or actuality

the quality of being near to the true value

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

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It ought to have been enough for you, ye scoundrels, to have changed the pearls of my lady's eyes into oak galls, and her hair of purest gold into the bristles of a red ox's tail, and in short, all her features from fair to foul, without meddling with her smell; for by that we might somehow have found out what was hidden underneath that ugly rind; though, to tell the truth, I never perceived her ugliness, but only her beauty, which was raised to the highest pitch of perfection by a mole she had on her right lip, like a moustache, with seven or eight red hairs like threads of gold, and more than a palm long."
I felt I had him at a disadvantage, had caught him in the mood of indiscretion; and to tell the truth I was not curious to learn what might have driven a young medical student out of London.
To tell the truth, I shall buy the tobacco without acquainting you with the fact, although I ought not so to do.
And what a voice she has; though she's my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she'll be a singer, a second Salomoni!
TELL THE TRUTH STOP hiding how you truly think and feel for an easy life.
STDs can have all kinds of repercussions and many of the unborn will carry the burden of casual unprotected sex and you have to ask, should we hide behind this cloak of secrecy because we do not want to offend people or should we tell the truth and save these children from the pain of their parents' sins.
EWER than one in five people trust politicians to tell the truth.
woman per cI jo Interestingly, journalists were trusted by just 26 per cent of people to tell the truth - lower than the proportion that would trust estate agents to the same (30 per cent).
'I want her to tell the truth,' the Senate chief prober said, adding it was 'very obvious' that Signapan and other witnesses were not telling the truth.
JUST one in six people trust government ministers to tell the truth about immigration, found a survey of nearly 20,000.
When Theodore Lewisthe Dublin-born Orthodox rabbi who served as spiritual leader of Newport, Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue for 36 years, beginning in 1949passed away in 2010 at age 95, obituaries from Colorado to Ireland noted that among other events in his storied life, he had once been a guest on an episode of the popular American television game show To Tell the Truth.
"Ya'll hate the storyline where somebody's trying to bait me, I just got to be involved.  At some point, somebody has got to tell the truth. It ain't Draymond this time.
Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes urged law enforcers who could be interviewed by UN special rapporteurs on alleged human rights violations in the implementation of the drug war to tell the truth.
ANTONIO CONTE has warned Chelsea that he will NEVER be silenced and will always tell the truth - even if it costs him his job.
"When you tell the truth, this is the truth," Antonio Conte said.