לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

veracity

conformity to facts; habitual truthfulness and accuracy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with veracity, each labelled with its topic.

  • The judge questioned the veracity of a witness whose account changed in three material ways between statements.

    Law

  • Voters stopped testing the veracity of campaign leaflets and simply asked neighbors what the council had actually built.

    Politics

  • The prospectus lost all veracity when a researcher found that two of the listed factories had never been built.

    Finance

  • Historians doubt the veracity of the diary, since its author claims to have witnessed battles on two coasts in one week.

    History

  • Confidence is a poor guide to the veracity of a memory, and the surest witnesses are often the least accurate.

    Psychology

  • The fact-checking tool rates the veracity of each claim by tracing it back to a primary source or finding none.

    Technology

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