The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TRUER
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More clues leading to the result TRUER
- More straight trousers lost — SOS sent out
- More loyal lorry-driver, not fickle at heart
- Interpret second half right — it’s less inaccurate
- Time to regret and run — to be a bit more exact
- Starting to treat one who regrets being more accurate
- More faithful, more reliable--it's turned up missing
- One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere
- More devoted trustee admits regret
- More precise haulier ditching fashion label
- Ex-president wants man I’m not sure is more loyal
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What does TRUER mean?
TRUER adjective- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Genuine; legitimate.
- Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (Of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.