How to Use truthful in a Sentence

truthful

adjective
  • We were not entirely truthful with her about where we went last night.
  • I like keeping the house clean but, to be truthful, I hate vacuuming.
  • What makes this more painful and truthful?
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Rumors seem more truthful when sourced to a friend of a friend.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Who will stay truthful and who will choose deceit to get ahead?
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 June 2025
  • The voice-over is both truthful and ironic.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • It was just told in the most truthful way with a lot of care from all of the crew.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
  • To say that the cancer didn't play a part wouldn't be truthful.
    — Denise Albert, Good Housekeeping, 5 Aug. 2016
  • Tell your story, be truthful to what come straight out of your mind.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And there’s nothing wrong with…okay, bad, be truthful, sure.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Does that make not being truthful with Kathy okay?
    — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the women said the statements were not even truthful.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 17 June 2019
  • To her credit, Williams was adamant the projects be truthful.
    — Alicia Rancilio, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
  • One, is that Dawn was being truthful about her role in all of this.
    — Jonathan Leach, CBS News, 6 June 2017
  • The deep, dark, truthful mirror is coming for all of us.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That is sometimes truthful but that’s always the reach.
    — Sarah Kurchak, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That is sometimes truthful but that's always the reach.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
  • How important is that, to be truthful with things?
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Just be truthful and be true to yourself, and your kids are going to turn out just fine.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2022
  • My advice is to omit this person off your guest list, and if you are asked why, be truthful.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2023
  • And that was a mostly truthful answer.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The only thing that limits your age is not being truthful about your age.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Out of all my projects, this is the most truthful to my own experience.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Having faith and stay the course and keep making truthful music and time will tell.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There never seemed to be a truthful account of what happened.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 22 July 2017
  • One of those is a feature that asks users to vote on how truthful certain news stories are.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Do yourself a favor and find a nice, smart, truthful, single man to date.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The idea is to keep the tone pure to the show while being truthful with what’s happening.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Love your family, love your friends who are faithful and truthful to you and you to them.
    — Naveen Kumar, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2021
  • All of that seemed very truthful to both the story and to the normal struggles of teenagers.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025

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