inveracity

• “A reputation of sexual laxity, failure to pay honest debts, inveracity, would not be tolerated by him.”

  Brief Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis. Also an Account of the Founding and Development of the Bettis Academy

• “His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.”

  INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)

• “In no instance, therefore, in the illustrations of inaccuracy given in the preceding pages, is there any imputation of perverse and intentional inveracity.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “Such explanation implies an inveracity which it is not necessary to impute.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “We need to remember, however, that inaccuracy by no means connotes inveracity.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “So far as I can perceive, the "Christian dog" is no more the slave of his word than the True Believer, and I think the savage -- allowing for the fact that his inveracity has dominion over fewer things -- as great a liar as either of them.”

  A Cynic Looks at Life

• “Doubtless it is sent upon us for our sins; but had we not already a plague of inveracity?”

  The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

• “True Believer, and I think the savage -- allowing for the fact that his inveracity has dominion over fewer things -- as great a liar as either of them.”

  The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

• “And then would follow specifications of historical inveracity enough to make one's blood run cold.”

  Backlog Studies

• “You think the scene is Alexandria or the Spanish main, where you may let your imagination play revel to the extent of inveracity.”

  Apologia pro Vita Sua

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