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The trait of deserving trust and confidence
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trustworthiness
Word definitions for trustworthiness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of deserving trust and confidence [syn: trustiness ] [ant: untrustworthiness , untrustworthiness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being trustworthy or reliable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trustworthy \Trust"wor`thy\, a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness , n.
Usage examples of trustworthiness.
I believe that our diplomatic and political castes may have seriously misjudged the trustworthiness of your species.
De Quincey, whose acute and in many respects most valuable monograph on the poet touches its point of least trustworthiness in matters of this kind, declares roundly, and on the alleged authority of Coleridge himself, that the very primary and essential prerequisite of happiness was wanting to the union.
At noon Marazzini told me that he knew a soldier for whose trustworthiness he would answer, and who would get me my dinner if I gave him the money.
I am happy to think that I have perhaps prolonged your days by giving you a nurse for whose trustworthiness I would answer.
The exposure would humiliate Drake & Sweeney, a firm with immense pride and ego, and built on credibility, client service, trustworthiness.
Sweeney, a firm with immense pride and ego, and built on credibility, client service, trustworthiness.
But he settles the question in Book 5, chapter 23, in these words: It is a very general belief, the truth of which is vouched for by many from their own experience, or at least from heresay as having been experienced by men of undoubted trustworthiness, that Satyrs and Fauns (which are commonly called Incubi) have appeared to wanton women and have sought and obtained coition with them.
She can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness.
During these periods when he couldn't spare time for himself, the garden was cared for by an elderly Sicilian deaf-mute of submoronic intelligence but absolute trustworthiness with growing things—his ancestors had trained vines and coaxed hedges for the ancient Romans.
His weblink would notify him if anyone with a trustworthiness rating below 85 percent got within a dozen meters of him.