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reliable

adjective accurate, assured, authentic, certain, competent, conclusive, conscientious, constant, credible, definite, dependable, devoted, evidential, exact, faithful, genuine, guaranteed, honest, honorable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, irrefutable, legitimate, loyal, proved, real, reputable, respectable, responsible, safe, scrupulous, secure, sincere, sound, stable, stanch, steadfast, steady, strong, sure, tried, true, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, undeniable, unerring, unfailing, unhazardous, unperilous, upright, veracious, veridical, worthy of trust
Associated concepts: reliable evidence, reliable testimony, reliable witness

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He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the order- lies at division headquarters.

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Man, poor, awkward, reliable, necessary man belongs to a sex that has been rational for millions and millions of years.

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We had this from Timothy Petrovitch himself, and he is a reliable person.

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I move, then, that, while Professor Summerlee be thanked for his interesting address, the whole matter shall be regarded as `non-proven,' and shall be referred back to a larger, and possibly more reliable Committee of Investigation.

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So vast was the excitement that for some weeks the Press really told the truth; and the reports of examination and cross-examination, if interminable, even if intolerable are at least reliable.

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You knew that you had told Miss Lavish, and that she was not reliable.

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Be careful that B is a reliable man, though, otherwise he won't.

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There Dallas had first staggered across the floor shouting "Dad," while May and the nurse laughed behind the door; there their second child, Mary (who was so like her mother), had announced her engagement to the dullest and most reliable of Reggie Chivers's many sons; and there Archer had kissed her through her wedding veil before they went down to the motor which was to carry them to Grace Church--for in a world where all else had reeled on its foundations the "Grace Church wedding" remained an unchanged institution.

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Vholes," says Richard, more familiarly and good-humouredly, "that you are the most reliable fellow in the world and that to have to do with you is to have to do with a man of business who is not to be hoodwinked.

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I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this.

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Kennedy's countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"; his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy movement, he yet seemed gifted with herculean strength; a face embrowned by the sun; eyes keen and black; a natural air of daring courage; in fine, something sound, solid, and reliable in his entire person, spoke, at first glance, in favor of the bonny Scot.

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Thousands of pairs of stockings from the most reliable manufacturers of the universe at sensational reductions.