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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trustworthy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of our employees are pretty trustworthy, I think.
▪ We got the information from a trustworthy source.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are you a hard worker; are you loyal, trustworthy or faithful?
▪ But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy.
▪ Do the best you can to draw up a complete and trustworthy plan.
▪ From then on life is marked by the search for an answer which will meet the need and prove trustworthy.
▪ If you want your mom to trust you, you have to be a trustworthy person.
▪ It would have to be an evil-beneath-the-surface person who seems to be trustworthy.
▪ Those who advocate total manipulation urge that a trustworthy mode of communication is always open to cheating.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trustworthy

Trustworthy \Trust"wor`thy\, a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trustworthy

1791, from trust (n.) + worthy. Related: Trustworthiness.

Wiktionary
trustworthy

a. Deserving of trust, reliable.

WordNet
trustworthy
  1. adj. worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion" [syn: trusty] [ant: untrustworthy]

  2. taking responsibility for one's conduct and obligations; "trustworthy public servants"

Usage examples of "trustworthy".

Blackberry wine, which is a trustworthy cordial astringent remedy for looseness of the bowels, may be made thus: Measure your berries, and bruise them, and to every gallon of the fruit add a quart of boiling water.

I turned the packet over to the major-domo of my villa, a trustworthy enough Sicilian freedman named Pantaleon, and told him exactly what would happen to him if any harm came to a single page while I was away.

If these men had in all cases established as good and trustworthy governments in the South as they had been reared under in the North, they would have conferred upon all the reconstructed States a blessing which as prejudice wore away would have caused their names to be respected and honored.

Halimeda Opper, a venerable and trustworthy Reversionist party stalwart who was a media production designer by profession.

Adopting my contingency plan, I slipped through the group and tucked my hand under the arm of a man with the white hair of a televangelist, the deceptively trustworthy eyes of same, and a hawkish red nose-and therefore the man most likely to be the revered judge.

Bledsoe that Widow Becket would do well to have a care for her reputation, for more than one trustworthy person had seen her traipsing carelessly about Mayfair, unescorted, in the company of Lord Connery!

He might compare the trustworthy goodness of Albus Dumbledore to the infinitely superior goodness of God the Father, stressing that we can find the same kind of reassurance in God, and godly mentors, that Harry finds in his headmaster.

I guess it would be accurate to say that Sammy addicts were the rodeo clowns of the junkie universe, the baddest, most functional and most trustworthy of their kind.

And because he was Bruin Bear, that most trustworthy of animals, the rebels looked at each other, nodded more or less in unison, and followed the Bear up the grassy slope away from the wrecked Welcome Station.

Weston and then at the Academy in Enfield, grown up dividing the human world into those who were open, readable, trustworthy, v.

Owl, as if her presence somehow proved that Yozerf and Gless were trustworthy.

So that the study and practice of curative British herbs may now fairly take rank as an exact science, and may command the full confidence of the sick for supplying trustworthy aid and succour in their times of bodily need.

The mysterious kidnapping of Paris and Seven added another stressor to the mix, and Janeway was still trying to figure out if Secretary Nashi was trustworthy.

But he knew the man was trustworthy and respectworthy to the core of his being.

This Richard Tsao is trustworthy, according to our Intelligence sources, but only up to a point.