truthfulness

truthful | American Dictionary

truthful
adjective
us/ˈtruθ·fəl/
honest and not containing or telling any lies:
Are you being completely truthful?

Examples of truthful

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The pay-off for keeping the children truthful was that their utterances could be interpreted seriously.
Of two creatures in nature it is the one with a more truthful and reliable picture of the world that survives and propagates its genes.
Thus, for any given level of emissions, truthful revelation occurs if the costs to the firm associated with corruption exceed those from honest revelation.
Secondly, an agent's reputation as being a liar (or truthful) can be spread by the system.
The bidding strategies are truthful because the bids reveal the bidders' preferences.
In a sense, and by her own lights, her remarks are accurate and truthful.
Even this subset is potentially infinite, since the result requires only that the contribution functions be "truthful" around the equilibrium.
The first is that you are informed by one you have always experienced to be truthful.
This points to the need for strategies to induce truthful reporting, even among those firms that already have a reputation of being green.
If a person is truthful, he is respected, reliable, taken seriously, honored and endowed with reputation.
To carry conviction, the actor had to believe that the necessary actions were truthful to real life, and genuinely had to feel the appropriate emotions.
Truthful testimony was thus seen as a ready concomitant to gentility.
As in the one-stage games above, the seller may choose to conceal information, but anything she does reveal must be truthful.
The witnesses apparently did not testify under oath, but were certainly expected to be truthful.
The requirement that truthful revelation is incentive compatible places further important restrictions on the tax and audit schedules.
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