trusty

She implemented wry wit like a tactical defense, a trusty tool in her arsenal that could disarm an opponent and defuse tricky conversations.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Ben Jones, the actor best known for portraying trusty mechanic Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard” before serving two terms in Congress as a representative from Georgia, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

With his trusty bow and arrow, he hunts game and safeguards his twin sister Asa – who, for unexplained reasons, resides behind bars in a dark cell.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Instead, use seasonal accessories to make trusty basics go the extra mile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

A wiry man stepped off the bike as if it was his trusty steed.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

The housing area involved, Aloma said, was a dorm in Module 3600 that houses 16 to 20 inmate workers known as trusties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

Wearing his trademark cowboy hat and boots, Blakely said he had fewer privileges than jail trusties and denied receiving special treatment from his former staff.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

“It’s always sad when one of the trusties has to retire,” Stenson told PGATour.com's Andrew Tursky on Tuesday at the Houston Open.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 9, 2019

A bit later, Janet took me past the guardhouse, where Sanders used to hang out with the troopers, and the driveway, where her daughter played basketball with prison trusties who worked at the mansion.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Or a better, trustier reputation, as opposed to one that investors and potential customers immediately associate with stories about an oddball founder who lost a bunch of money.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2023

The biggest crypto execs and celebrities believe that they are the industry’s adults in the room, here to offer a better and trustier product than Bankman-Fried did.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

Her backhand was the trustier weapon, and Gauff drilled one down the line to claim her first game.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022

That was enough to kick off a jam session lasting another hour, with Phumiphon, joined by some of his own royal band, switching between his brand-new clarinet and his trustier saxophone.

From Time Magazine Archive

What trustier messenger could I find now that I have lent him zest by fright?

From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini

Then again, there are times when Misiorowski doesn’t need anything else besides his trustiest weapon: a fastball so good that even big-leaguers usually can’t catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

IT WAS the dismissal and flight abroad of Robert Mugabe’s oldest and trustiest lieutenant that finally led to his downfall.

From Economist ● Nov. 16, 2017

The real potential in YouNow celebrity is not that broadcasters will become movie stars some day—it’s that social media broadcasting will soon subsume film as the world’s trustiest star-making vehicle.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015

One of the trustiest ways for comedians to elicit laughs is to say the things they – or we – are not supposed to say.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012

He had regarded me, from almost the very beginning of our acquaintance, as his best and trustiest friend,—in short, as just what dear Emma had told him he should find me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various