mendacityformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reality and truth
actuality
apothegm
authenticity
axiomatically
brute fact
God's truth
gospel
home truth
immediacy
impostor syndrome
practice
real life
the real McCoy
the real thing
the real worldphrase
truth
truth is stranger than fictionidiom
truth will outidiom
verisimilitude
verity

Examples of veracity

veracity
His claim of rationality, morality, and veracity guarantees his authority to make assertions about immigration and the behavior of immigrants.
Accepting that they are narratives whose veracity is questionable, she shows how deponents used words in order to position themselves in particular ways.
At this point it would be easy to get distracted, as so many commentators have been, by the golden idol of veracity.
More profound methodological criticism of the concept of policy networks doubts its veracity as explanatory concept seeing it as a purely descriptive tool.
But veracity is not the sole nor necessarily the ultimate value.
He advocates the use of natural materials that allow the gaze to penetrate their surfaces and thereby convince us of the veracity of matter.
The evident differences in the human and divine natures seem to show, then, that veracity is not among the divine virtues.
Unless intellectuals make a new departure, inspired by unflinching veracity, truth will remain powerless against propaganda.
Therefore, we question the veracity of this apparently constructed example.
In their irreconcilability to conventional historical narrative lies their veracity.
By the standards of his day they conveyed an even greater sense of veracity.
Transparency, veracity, and accountability, hallmarks of responsible business practices, must become part of the bioinformatics calculus as well.
By bringing together a diversity of viewpoints and experiences, jurors are able, for example, to evaluate better the veracity of witnesses.
There is no adjudication of a link's veracity other than a statistical survival of the fittest; errors and misspellings are not discarded.
In contrast to the uncertainty surrounding the veracity of behavioural/demographic information, we are confident that the subtype analysis yielded accurate results.
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