truth-telling

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Truth-telling and athletic greatness are not inextricably linked.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2015

Truth-telling was a part of Rupert's truculent temper, although, as the boy had often bitterly remarked, it had always "told agin' him."

From Cressy by Harte, Bret

Truth-telling presents a far harder problem, as we have seen.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

Truth-telling, though it often gives offence, an essential duty from friend to friend.

From De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Truth-telling is the verbal reaction of the life245 which habitually holds that nothing is right until it is just right.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick