trustworthy
Lawyers questioned the trustworthiness of witnesses who were unwilling to show up in court.
The trustworthiness of electronic voting systems has become an increasing concern.
Scientists must follow their own judgment as to the trustworthiness of anything they download.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Loyal, faithful & dependable
a safe pair of handsidiom
allegiance
audaciously
be as good as your wordidiom
be here for someoneidiom
be there for someoneidiom
committed
discreetly
faithful
faithfully
faithfulness
fealty
fidelity
reliability
reliable
reliably
self
stalwart
undependable
unto thine own self be trueidiom

Examples of trustworthiness

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Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.
As one party's trustworthiness expectations for another party decrease, both exchanges and transfers become riskier.
For a static checking tool used to enforce a confidentiality policy, trustworthiness depends on soundness of the rules and correctness of their implementation.
Section 3 deals with system-level trust where we illustrate different mechanisms that enforce certain properties of the interaction and hence the trustworthiness of agents involved.
Verification of the research findings was sought via monitoring of the credibility (trustworthiness) of the collected data.
Political credibility refers to the trustworthiness of an organization and conveys authority in its social value judgment as perceived by stakeholders (23; 27;50;62).
Claims of trustworthiness, however, were not limited to human labour, but also to materials used in establishing standards.
The trustworthiness of the workers, however, is even more significant in relation to the actual work, irregular employment patterns and the high quality demands.
This will allow users of the system to make basic valid assumptions about the trustworthiness of all other users.
Once communication is allowed, however, subjects spend time and effort assessing each other's trustworthiness and reaching agreements about the best strategies they should jointly take.
In a mere community of interests, the value that each attaches to trustworthiness is purely instrumental.
To assess trustworthiness in these terms receivers may scrutinize the statements of senders for their political correctness.
Finally, trustworthiness was enhanced by the meticulous collating of emerging themes and theories with the data.
In the absence of any personal experience regarding the trustworthiness of someone, third-party intermediaries can be used to mediate between the principal and the trustee.
The saving grace is that, if we have a trustworthiness culture, a trust culture is sure to follow.
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