Actual - authentic

Usage examples of veritable.

Nicholas Mannering, from all reports, was an odious monster of ill nature, such as in comparison would make Sandor look a veritable paragon.

She looked around at the wreckage, remembering the vast, beautifully proportioned building on its high podium of many steps, the Ionic columns all bravely painted and gilded, the metopes and pediment veritable masterpieces.

He disengaged my hand and began to redial a number that would result in a veritable morass of complications for me.

The extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless: mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a.

This last time, the escape of the Comtesse de Tournay and her children had been a veritable masterpiece--Blakeney disguised as a hideous old market-woman, in filthy cap and straggling grey locks, was a sight fit to make the gods laugh.

Either we must exhibit the self-knowing of an uncompounded being--and show how that is possible--or abandon the belief that any being can possess veritable self-cognition.

Betty Wardman, the post mistress had been a veritable font of mostly useless information.

Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York City, a veritable Ashkenazi tidal wave.

Marable, her eternal Battenberg in her hands, looked up through the meshes of a perplexity, as visible as if it were a veritable network, at Gladys, who was standing in the recess of the bay-window, a book in her hand.

The man steepled his fingers at me, bowed perfunctorily, and released a veritable tirade of Bengali at the dripping Inspector.

This woman had been a veritable Chaucerian figure, taking on and discarding husbands with breathtaking rapidity, always trading up, until she was able to write the will that made Lois heir to three million.

Koch had studied them carefully and found them to be veritable menageries of hideous scum-forming bacilli and strange cocci and other foreign creatures that had no business there.

Her yellow hair rolled back from her round forehead and cool pink cheeks like a veritable nimbus, and for the fiftieth time Condy remarked the charming contrast of her small, deep-brown eyes in the midst of this white satin, yellow hair, white skin, and exquisite pink cheeks.

South - vague, but always insistent rumors that the addiction to such drugs as morphine and cocaine was becoming a veritable curse to the colored race in certain regions.

This reverse process, far from being limited with Kundera to an analogy accompanied by a mere substitution of characters, achieves the status of a veritable gnoseological exploration of the theme through its numerous semantic and formal, textual and intertextual transformations.