veracity
IPA: vɝˈæsɪti
noun
- (uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
- (countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
- (uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
- Act of being exact and accurate.
- Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
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Examples of "veracity" in Sentences
- You'll find the veracity is about 6 parts out of 7.
- We represent trust of sources with what we refer to as the veracity score.
- After a thousand people say, “Don't do it dude” on blogs, veracity is fairly well established.
- The one scientific discipline directly applicable to biblical veracity is archeology and I would like to see the digging continue.
- "I'm telling the truth," assured Squeaky, who sees "I say it's true" as irrefutable proof positive of veracity, or would if she had the faintest idea what the word "veracity" means.
- But the thing that lends a character's voice historical veracity is the quality of the quotidian details — that the journalist in "The One in White" is drinking blue agave, for example.
- The veracity issue HAS been settled – the right wing bloggers who thought he was a hoax turned out to be lacking in veracity and have no credibility on the issue and instead just went in search of other reasons they made up.
- I think that the corroboration from the Montgomery County PD that they were there should be sufficient, regardless of the denials issuing forth from Chief Lanier and her people (who have prevaricated before and whose veracity is suspect).
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