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Truth-teller   Listen
noun
Truth-teller  n.  One who tells the truth. "Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Truth-teller" Quotes from Famous Books



... an age of pretence, it is to many more or less shocking to have such persons take up the pen and, with frankness born of native honesty, tell the truth as he or she may distinctly perceive it. Society is so used to 'diplomatic courtesies' that when the truth-teller arrives, society 'takes a fit,' seeing its illusions vanish. Its would-be idols which have been proclaimed as made of pure gold, are found to be gilded clay, its devils not so devilish after all, and the daring act of the truth-teller is vigorously ...
— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith



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