How To Use Veracity In A Sentence
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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
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Cooke gilded that story for days, insisting on its veracity and refusing to tell the police where the boy lived.
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The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
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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.
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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
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It's impolite to challenge their integrity, the veracity of their self-expression.
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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
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In fact, the CIA had long harbored strong doubts concerning Curveball's veracity.
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The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism.
Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe
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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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Some of them are presidial acts, _i. e._ extracted from the court registers; others were written from the relations of eye-witnesses of undoubted veracity.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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We need to remember, however, that inaccuracy by no means connotes inveracity.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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Some questioned the veracity of the reports, fearing it could be an attempt to undermine the Nato air campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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The veracity of those claims will be tested during the club's investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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Written with an air of braggadocio, Love's story is, in places, of questionable veracity.
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The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
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Call it 'Q' or oral teachings or whatever, the evidence applies most to the veracity of the stories and sayings common to the Synoptics.
An Amazing First Century
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The veracity of these claims is not yet possible to judge definitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the integrity of the Commission, the veracity of all the testimony it heard, and the legitimacy of its recommendations were, in fact, widely dismissed as hokum because it was clear to "everyone who could read the facts" (or hokum, which is it?) that the whole thing was Jamie Gorelick's fault?
In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film
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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.
Matthew Yglesias » A Question of Motives
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Anybody who doubts the veracity of the figures should consult the US census returns for the year 1880.
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If, then, the veracity of consciousness be unconditionally admitted -- _if the intuitive knowledge of matter and mind_, and the consequent reality of their antithesis, be taken as truths," the doctrine of Natural Realism is established, and, "without any hypothesis or demonstration, the _reality of mind_ and the _reality of matter_." [
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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The committee also cast doubt on the veracity of the map used by the MoD.
Times, Sunday Times
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If anyone doubted the veracity of his research or the authenticity of his photographs, he would fly into a violent rage.
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I can speak to his veracity.
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At first, I couldn't bring myself to believe the veracity of the news item until I concluded that the reporter could not have been so debased as to fabricate the news to calumniate college students for no apparent reason.
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If lawyers have their doubts about the veracity of a case, are they going to be prosecuted for taking the case?
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A reputation of sexual laxity, failure to pay honest debts, inveracity, would not be tolerated by him.
Brief Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis. Also an Account of the Founding and Development of the Bettis Academy
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My feeling is that the writer has license to write his/her version of the truth, as it serves the work's intent, veracity, and aesthetic.
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Doubtless it is sent upon us for our sins; but had we not already a plague of inveracity?
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
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Testimonials give greater emphasis and personalize professions of beliefs as proof to support the veracity of a particular claim.
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Fictional stories and dreams have precisely the same effect; veracity does not seem to be a central component.
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Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question.
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McCain obviously felt the need to support his blatant flip-flop on DADT, so he dredged this out of the archives, but he forgot to check on its veracity, relevance and pertinence to today.
Think Progress » Report Discredits Letter Waved About By McCain As Evidence Of Military Opposition To DADT Repeal
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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Idealists discredit the veracity of consciousness as to our immediate knowledge of material phenomena, and, consequently, our _immediate knowledge of the existence of matter_. [
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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A further piece of veracity lay in the fact that Imelda could not embrace the concept of life without a husband.
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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).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Item on the SEIU Protest
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The great "artillery duel," as American writers are so fond of calling what used to be termed a cannonade, seems to have astounded the Federal organs into something like frankness and veracity.
London; Saturday, May 2, 1863
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Did they not realise the extent of Archer's problems with veracity?
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While the first one led me to question these stories' veracity, the second made me consider their politics.
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I suggest that the minister test my veracity on this to see whether I am telling the truth.
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He could, as in _The Caxtons_, be fairly true to ordinary life -- but even then he seemed to feel a necessity of setting off and as it were apologising for the simplicity and veracity by touches -- in fact by _douches_ -- of Sternian fantastry, and by other touches of what was a little later to be called sensationalism.
The English Novel
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Such explanation implies an inveracity which it is not necessary to impute.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its [ the Christian religion's ] veracity ( David Hume ).
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Australian sea-side hotel was regularly supplied with young shark -- "gummy" -- by a fisherman, for whose veracity the author can vouch.
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
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When the MoD was the sole source of information, the press could only speculate as to the veracity of its statements.
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As previously, it is not the ‘veracity’ of the painting that concerns her but its semiotic complexities and strangenesses.
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We represent trust of sources with what we refer to as the veracity score.
UX Magazine - Comments
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Still, no matter the source or its veracity, intelligence has to be analysed correctly.
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So far as I can perceive, the "Christian dog" is no more the slave of his word than the True Believer, and I think the savage -- allowing for the fact that his inveracity has dominion over fewer things -- as great a liar as either of them.
A Cynic Looks at Life
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The trouble is that the claims can be misleading and dance on the edge of the facts what I call nutritional pseudoveracity.
Undefined
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Blake is particularly captivating, moving between sober housewife and mother, to girlish seductress and committed adulteress with believable veracity, consistently evoking sympathy.
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I can testify to this man's veracity and good character.
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The danger of using unattributed sources as Kurtz and so many others do, is that the veracity of the informants can not be evaluated.
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Compromise and concession can be difficult for the appellant and the court had many concerns about his veracity.
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After the improbability of all that recently transpired, he couldn't see fit to doubt Aarrl's veracity.
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He said each state witness had been extensively cross-examined, and the court had no reason to rule any of them evasive or to doubt their veracity.
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On the other hand, claims of veracity would appear to move us away from art and towards reportage or some other form of non-fiction.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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The Justice indeed did not call for a bottle to determine whether it should be peace or war, but he did that which answered the purpose as well; for, happening to use the word ferocity, Mrs. Butterfield’s brilliant apprehension immediately understood him to have complimented her with the expression of veracity.
Ashton Priory
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Whether this latter prediction had any veracity is debatable, as the troubled African country has been in a state of growing crisis for years.
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I then produced a letter from the Resident of the Republic in Tunis, recommending me to all the _bureaux indigènes_ of the country, my translation of it being confirmed and even improved upon, at the expense of veracity, by a spahi (native cavalryman) who happened to be present, and threatened the man with the torments of the damned if he failed to comply with the desires of his government.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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This time both the Taliban and a second insurgent faction, Hezb-i-Islami, claimed responsibility for the bombing, although until the identity and motivation of the bomber are established - and the kind of detonating device he was using known - it will be hard to gauge their veracity.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Many of the survivors there expressed anger that the media routinely questioned the veracity of survivor testimony on the basis of spurious reasoning and apparent prejudice.
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And contrary to gender myth, men have a lower standard of veracity, fibbing an average five times compared to women's three.
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The end result is that there is very serious doubt about their veracity, backed by a huge body of evidence within a day of the story surfacing.
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I have removed the identifying information from this email, after assuring myself of the writer's veracity.
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Once again Dane Chandos weaves a vivid Mexican tapestry of the same charm, color, humor and veracity that evoked from the readers of his first book, Village in the Sun, such a unanimously rapturous response ..
Dane Chandos Books
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Mr. Droga declined to reveal locations beforehand (including the veracity of the Times Square example), but did describe the campaign in oblique terms.
Jay-Z Memoir Gets Creative Ad Campaign
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Unfortunately, the marketability of spy stories is determined by their drama, not by their veracity.
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This roller coaster veracity has one great advantage: emotional momentum.
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We are confident of our sources and satisfied with the veracity of the story.
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I am in no position to determine the accuracy of any such allegations or the veracity of the affiants of the affidavits in support of the application.
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Not surprisingly some have cast doubt on the veracity of this belief.
Times, Sunday Times
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O'Dell wrote it in a fund-raising letter so its veracity and exact wordage are not in doubt.
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It is the duty of the referring clinician to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and veracity of the information provided.
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We have not checked the veracity of these claims, but you can have a dekko and decide for yourself at the exhibition, which is on till Wednesday.
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While commentators see the company continuing to dance around the facts they will continue to doubt the veracity of its message.
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The Mormons when they send missionaries to try to convert people will tell people to do "the Moroni Test" wherein you read the Book of Mormon (or attempt to do so, Mark Twain called it "cloroform in print") and then pray about it, whence apon, so they say a still small voice will assure you as to the B of M's veracity.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
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The veracity of this individual's account cannot be verified as he promptly disappeared.
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The frequency variation of electrical power system would have effect the veracity of electric parameter evaluation, and possibility effect characteristic of automatic equipment.
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There is some question as to whether it can be called a documentary because there has been doubt about the veracity of proceedings.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have no reason to doubt the veracity of the Goodridges' stories.
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Foker spoke strongly in favour of the Major's character for veracity and honour.
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And yet acquiring evidence and testing the veracity of claims in past cases is hugely time-consuming and the results are unreliable.
Times, Sunday Times
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True Believer, and I think the savage -- allowing for the fact that his inveracity has dominion over fewer things -- as great a liar as either of them.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
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News stories from museums and galleries, awonderful source of romantic illustrations, are notknocked off newsroom schedulesmerely because they are of dubious veracity.
Not likely, Mr Shakespeare
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I can testify to this man's veracity and good character.
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Sometimes, photojournalism is so brilliant that a natural reaction is to doubt its veracity.
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Following the pattern of the previous section, evidence will be provided substantiating the veracity of the themes of the argument.
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It is a method for those who vote to assess the veracity and character of those who appear in the House.
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But I expect some degree of veracity, of concreteness from renderings; they inform and set my expectation of the experience and presence of the architecture.
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Whatever her motives, the veracity of her statement is all too clear and not only in Germany.
Europe's Bad Boys
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Since at least some respondents misreported their use of drugs, the veracity of, and the wisdom in using, other information from these respondents may be questioned.
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The feasibility of the gray body hypothesis and the veracity of the experimental formula are compared and analyzed.
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Some people have doubted its veracity, but I'm willing to take it at face value.
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Glass, who parried questions about the veracity of those articles, should correct the record.
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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.
Faraway Voices
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After a thousand people say, “Don't do it dude” on blogs, veracity is fairly well established.
Archive 2005-03-01
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The one scientific discipline directly applicable to biblical veracity is archeology and I would like to see the digging continue.
An Amazing First Century
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If anyone doubts the veracity of Chang and Halliday's story they only have to glance at some of the accompanying photographs.
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The ending is powerful, with the message that history is what you make of it, depending upon the veracity of those who wrote it.
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We have total confidence in the veracity of our research.
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You'll find the veracity is about 6 parts out of 7.
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch
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We do not accept the veracity of those claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Going further along those lines, I expect that the unwillingness to 'scientifically' explore the intuitional side – which is a feature of modern Western not shared by traditional Eastern philosophical traditions btw – from which we have a modern science that seemingly eschews the verse of intuition for the pure prose of fact-based veracity, is a core fault, or fallacy, indeed ongoing fault line.
A Materialist Red Herring
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Contrasting core ground gamma curve with logging gamma curve locate the core, and then emend the depth of the core sample, which improve veracity of the core data.
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His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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‘Available intelligence’ is a non-descript, indiscriminating term, probably deliberately employed to avoid questions as to what they knew of its quality and veracity.
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I don't doubt the veracity of your report.
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If any here misdoubts my veracity, see, here is a letter received by the last packet from my honored father.
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In no instance, therefore, in the illustrations of inaccuracy given in the preceding pages, is there any imputation of perverse and intentional inveracity.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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One's opinions on veracity might determine whether or not one agrees with the proposition that Tristram Shandy is an appropriate model for the on-line littérateur.
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And then would follow specifications of historical inveracity enough to make one's blood run cold.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
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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).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Item on the SEIU Protest
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A person is character personified only if he has enough creibility. Credibility is an essential attribute that is built on the elements of integrity, reliability, veracity, competence and commitment.
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The two dancers, to cover their confusion, doubted his veracity and instanced his many well-known and notorious guilts of mendacity.
CHAPTER III
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While we hear their stories, empathetic experts probe the veracity of their claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is up to the judge to decide the veracity of the claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then she challenged the veracity of the evidence.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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His veracity, that is, his laborious accuracy, is admitted by the only persons competent to form an opinion, namely, independent investigators who have followed in his track; but what may be called the internal evidence of the case also supplies a strong proof of it.
Obiter Dicta
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That is one more reason that the Washington Secretary of State has prevue over the certification of not just the counts of the ballots so cast, but also the veracity of the contents of the ballot.
Senator Obama's Citizenship Lawsuits
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Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
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Reid's Hume, however, takes quite a different tack; he takes it to be a sign of foolishness or error or dupery (in any event, part of the deplorable human condition) to accept the testimony of any source whose veracity hasn't been (or, worse, can't be) established by way of consciousness and reason.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Responsible for the statistic data's veracity of warehouse and workshop.
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He also tries to test the veracity of the various accounts.
The Times Literary Supplement
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If you doubt my veracity, MyDoom's ability to spoof icons should change your mind.
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Many people have questioned its veracity and suggested that digital technology may have been used to alter the image.
Times, Sunday Times
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The real length of time covered by the six visional days is not determined by Scripture; even the sequence of certain details may be different in nature from that in the vision, so that this theory does not interfere with the data of geology, while it safeguards the veracity of the inspired record.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Veracity is the English word for the Latin term veritas, which means “truth.”
Egonomics
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And shouldn't her previous cases be reopened to test the veracity of her claims?
The Sun
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The young man's veracity seemed as solid as terra firma, and as for the body...
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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We know that factual accuracy and veracity are trickier than they seem.
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If there are any doubts about a report's veracity, they can call on the expertise of their editors instantly.
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Did we set ourselves to the task of proving by argument or by authority that we are not wrong in believing in our own existence or that of an external world, or did we attempt to establish the trustworthiness of our faculties by resolving it into the veracity of God, our effort must needs be as abortive as it is superfluous, since it involves the necessity not only of proving the fact, but of _proving the proof itself_, and that, too, by the aid of the very faculties whose trustworthiness is in question!
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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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.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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It is necessary to weigh the answers in accordance with the general veracity of the owner.
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Joe was practicing what I call the audacity of veracity.
Obama Is Wrong About Colombia
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Is this a genuine reference, or are there doubts about its veracity?
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Indeed, nothing on earth can equal the Christian's happiness, and nothing else deserves that endearing name For who can be so happy as he who knows his sins are all forgiven, that God is his reconciled Father and Friend; that he is entitled, through the merit of Jesus Christ, to the protection of the Almighty, and coheirship with his Son hereafter; for the security of which, the veracity of God himself is pledged, all whose promises in Christ Jesus are yea and amen.
A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African; Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend
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Intelligence officers restricted themselves trying to establish the veracity of claims.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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Historical veracity, so far from undermining drama, actually enhances it.
Times, Sunday Times
