ring of authenticity

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of ring of truth.

    • The letter lacked a ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.
    • […]but newspaper readers now-a-days are pretty well able to discriminate between items of news that have the true ring of authenticity about them...
    • The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ring of authenticity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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