N. veracity, truthfulness, frankness, &c. adj, truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve|, honesty, fidelity, plain dealing, bona fides, love of truth, probity, ingenuousness, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, honest truth, sober truth, unvarnished tale, light of truth

V. speak the truth, tell the truth, speak by the card, paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors, make a clean breast, speak one's mind, not lie, not deceive

Adj. truthful, true, veracious, veridical, scrupulous, sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved, open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted, honest, trustworthy, undissembling &c (dissemble ), guileless, pure, truth-loving, unperjured, true blue, as good as one's word, unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised, uncontrived

Adv. truly, in plain words, in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth, as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole, honor bright, troth, in good sooth, in good earnest, unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae, without equivocation, cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart, by my troth

Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo, dichtung und wahrheit, esto quod esse videris, magna est veritas et praevalet, "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity", veritas odium parit, veritatis simplex oratio est, verite sans peur

N. artlessness, nature, simplicity, innocence, bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity, singleness of purpose, singleness of heart, honesty, plain speaking, epanchement, rough diamond, matter of fact man, le palais de verite, enfant terrible

V. be artless, look one in the face, wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at, think aloud, speak out, speak one's mind, be free with one, call a spade a spade

Adj. artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive, sincere, frank, open, open as day, candid, ingenuous, guileless, unsuspicious, honest, innocent, arcadian, undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard, simple-minded, single-minded, frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted, free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken, blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical, unflattering

Adv. in plain words, in plain english, without mincing the matter, not to mince the matter

Phr. davus sum non oedipus, liberavi animam meam, "as frank as rain on cherry blossoms", 1, conditional antagonism