ring of truth
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The impression of being truthful; especially of a statement or literary work; verisimilitude.
Example Sentences
- "At first I wasn't even sure I could believe the story, but I later felt it had a ring of truth to it."
- "I am too well accustomed to the taking of evidence not to detect the ring of truth."
- "She could hear the ring of truth in young Dawnish's voice."
- "As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways."
- "It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth."
- "Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate. Shepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous. Merchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth. Merchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more."