[ US /vɝˈæsɪti/ ]
[ UK /vəɹˈæsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. unwillingness to tell lies
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How To Use veracity In A Sentence

  • A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place; and though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity, and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • Cooke gilded that story for days, insisting on its veracity and refusing to tell the police where the boy lived.
  • The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
  • Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim (this is the motivation for all that research, after all) and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers.
  • Both the Indian and Pakistani press chastised Mr. Pillai's ill-timed public divulgence, though it doesn't diminish the veracity of his statement in any way. Michael Hughes: India Too Complacent About Pakistan Complicity in Mumbai Attacks
  • It's impolite to challenge their integrity, the veracity of their self-expression.
  • Upon my poetical veracity I do not see the strength of your objection, but as matrimony is a very tender subject, as well as a longwinded one, I had better give you Mr Pitt's answer when he did not choose to give any, 'I have not made up my mind.' Letter 265
  • In fact, the CIA had long harbored strong doubts concerning Curveball's veracity.
  • The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism. Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe
  • The affidavit was signed by a number of men who claimed they had known Hamilton for years, stating, “that for truth and veracity we have never heard his word questioned and that we do verily believe his statement to be true and correct.” Space Ships of the Visitors
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