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noun

informal any of various drugs supposed to have the property of making people tell the truth, as by relaxing them

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Words nearby truth drug

trustworthy, trusty, truth, truth claim, truth-condition, truth drug, truthful, truth-function, truthiness, Truth is stranger than fiction, truth or consequences

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How to use truth drug in a sentence

The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
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Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
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Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
Children's Ways|James Sully
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift