truthful answer
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truthful
adjective
uk/ˈtruːθ.fəl/us/ˈtruːθ.fəl/
honest and not containing or telling ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition oftruthfulandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I think thetruthfulansweris that ‘sometimes we do’, when in fact the answer should be ‘always’.
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Thetruthfulansweris that we do not yet know the causes.
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I found my wish to help eradicate female circumcision for good overrode any other problems, and that is mytruthfulanswerto him.
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Thetruthfulansweris that we cannot justify it to those people and, what is more important, to our own consciences.
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There is a balance, and thetruthfulansweris that we do not believe that it is worth it.
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I know that he will give me atruthfulanswerto that question.
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How are they to get atruthfulanswerto the question of how having £800 taken from them will make them better off?
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All we are trying to do is get atruthfulanswerout of him.
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None is thetruthfulanswerto that question.
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Thetruthfulansweris that those actions have been mixed.
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There is atruthfulanswerand a bogus answer.
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One can also give atruthfulanswerwhich evades the point.
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The onlytruthfulansweris that no absolute guarantees can be given about anything in this situation.
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I am afraid that his humility derives from the fact that he knows that he could not give me atruthfulanswer.
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Should there not have been atruthfulanswerto a proper parliamentary question?
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Can we have atruthfulanswer?
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They are entitled to atruthfulanswer.
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That may be atruthfulanswer.
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That was a perfectlytruthfulanswer.
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Will he give atruthfulanswer?
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