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veracious

/vuh-rey-shuhs/US // vəˈreɪ ʃəs //UK // (vɛˈreɪʃəs) //

宽大的,宽敞的,贪婪的,贪婪的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
    • : characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.

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adj.TRUE
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Examples

  • "Without doubt; true demons incarnate," replied the veracious priest.

  • He was so veracious a man, that it was said of him, after his death, ‘Truth died with Matyas.’

  • As regards the great Roman people, we know nothing of them, which is at once archaic and veracious.

  • We have been often compelled, in this veracious history, to reflect with harshness on certain traits of Mr. Linton's morality.

  • But he remains, on the whole, pencil in hand, a wonderfully copious and veracious historian of his age and his civilization.