veracity

But such belief in the face’s veracity, argues Fay Bound-Alberti in her fascinating “The Face: A Cultural History,” is hardly universal—and, St. Jerome aside, relatively modern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Smith, for his part, is dubious about the veracity of the ransom notes - and believes Guthrie was ferreted down to Mexico where she could more easily be kept out of sight.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Ross has been entrusted to judge others’ veracity, yet her own candor is in question.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

But "at some point, the markets are going to start to question the veracity of some of his statements," he added.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

To be efficient, in the Gilbreth family, was a virtue on a par with veracity, honesty, generosity, philanthropy, and tooth-brushing.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

We must wake up to the iron veracities of this war," he wrote, "and then face them not merely without flinching but with redoubled energy of will and effort.

From Time Magazine Archive

But my business is only to state veracities and necessities; I neither look for the acceptance of the one, nor promise anything for the nearness of the other.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

A man of Scotch type; the broad accent, with its sagacities, veracities, with its steadfastly fixed moderation, and its sly twinkles of defensive humor, is still audible to us through the foreign wrappages.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

In this aspect of it, then, I say it is the simplest and nakedest of lovely veracities.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by John Ruskin

Downing Street, if it cannot bethink itself of returning to the veracities, will have to vanish altogether!

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle