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  • adjective superlative form of trusty: most trusty.

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Examples

  • A local road-construction worker, 50-year-old Jerry Leonard, has become the Paul team's trustiest phone-banker.

    Meditators Back Paul for Peace Neil King Jr. 2012

  • In an 1894 letter to the Millicent Rogers Library, Mark Twain wrote, "A public library is the most enduring of memorials; the trustiest monument of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them."

    Letters: Mr Vaizey, in the library, with the axe 2011

  • In 1894, Mark Twain wrote that "a public library is the most enduring of memorials: the trustiest monument of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them".

    Zadie Smith joins campaign to save her local library 2011

  • Rolex is one of the trustiest brands around: not many surprises but you know you are getting exceptional quality and reliability.

    Haute Couture Takes On Horlogerie Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Rolex is one of the trustiest brands around: not many surprises but you know you are getting exceptional quality and reliability.

    Haute Couture Takes On Horlogerie Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Rolex is one of the trustiest brands around: not many surprises but you know you are getting exceptional quality and reliability.

    Haute Couture Takes On Horlogerie Jemima Sissons 2010

  • “Come now, since we are all of one mind, each of you give me five of the trustiest fellows in his company, and let them go the rounds, and see how the supplies are furnished; let them praise the active servants, and where they see neglect, chastise them more severely than their own masters could.”

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • [44] Thereupon Araspas took his leave, called together his trustiest attendants, said what he thought necessary for the occasion, and departed.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • Gobryas sent word to Cyrus, bidding him ride round and see where the place was easiest of approach, and meanwhile send his trustiest

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • The interval between the front and rear-rank men will best be filled supposing that the decadarchs are free to choose their own supports, and those chosen theirs, and so on following suit; since on this principle we may expect each man to have his trustiest comrade at his back.

    The Cavalry General 2007

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