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Truthfully

Truthful \Truth"ful\, a. Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.

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truthfully

adv. 1 (context manner English) In a truthful manner 2 (context speech act English) frankly.

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truthfully

adv. with truth; "I told him truthfully that I had just returned from my vacation"; "he answered the question as truthfully as he could" [ant: mendaciously]

Usage examples of "truthfully".

Truthfully, I had no idea whether the paper was really that damned interesting, or whether he was simply keeping me standing in order to try and annoy me.

He answered truthfully that he felt a little sick to the stomach, whereupon Fatso hit him in the sick stomach with his fist, and Prew gratefully vomited a large part of the commingled castor oil and food onto the floor.

Certainly, if the subject answered truthfully, it would detect insanity or psychopathology in a second.

He raised the question about how they should be paid: At first thought it might be suggested that a fixed sum, plus a commission upon all over a certain amount raised should be given, but it would be infinitely more effective if some of the present donors to the Foundation would underwrite the Helen Keller campaign so that it could truthfully be said that her services had been contributed to the cause and that she received no portion whatever of the money raised during her tour.

It has been truthfully said of him in proof of his inconsistency, that he was a free thinker at London, a Cartesian at Versailles, a Christian at Nancy, and an infidel at Berlin.

He was confident that Reagan had done nothing unlawful, that he had not known about the diversion of funds to the contras and could testify truthfully.

Image successful if it conveys the idea vividly and truthfully, 515-m.

But the more truthfully she told her story so much the more did the good lady believe her to be mad, and we often laughed together at the extraordinary fancies of the traitress.

Truthfully, she needed to get away from Ellie and her leading questions.

I had Greatheart stabled, groomed, and fed before die light faded, so that I could watch the sun set from the gardens, as I had truthfully told the Beast I liked to do.

Truthfully, I am waiting for Marchland to come and maintain his customary vigil, the police-drama surveillance he obviously took to heart back in the academy.

Dunmow in Essex after a year of marriage and truthfully swear that they never quarreled and did not regret the marriage and would do it over again if given the chance.

I cannot say truthfully that Snider evinced much enthusiasm at my rescue.

A merry monk, who sat at the right hand of the duchess, said, more truthfully, that there was no likeness at all.

At her desk beneath the Shakespeare bookends, Tessie wrote back faithfully, if not entirely truthfully.