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truthful

/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/ adjective B2
  1. Honest, and always telling the truth. · someone's truthful nature
  2. Accurately depicting what is real. · He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
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On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, “If so great a reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded, if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?” The Ape quickly turned to him.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 71 · B2
de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and the truthful minister.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 92 · C1
“I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 37 · B2
They were of great service to me, and especially that one incidentally truthful piece of biography of Stapleton’s.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 214 · C1

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