truthful

“Has this person been truthful their entire life? And does that mean they’re telling the truth now?”

"What we're quite good at is, when it's friends and partners, we know their truthful behaviour," he says.

“Political language makes lies sound truthful and murder acceptable,” Orwell warned.

His promise to bring down healthcare costs—with savings of $2,500 a year for every American family and $200 billion for the federal government—was no more truthful.

But it is so firmly grounded in truthful and complicated detail drawn from Mr. Dunne’s actual experience that it makes its powerful moral argument without any need for grandstanding or preaching.