 This is a good description of the virtue of honesty (or straightforwardness, or trustworthiness). And one might reasonably describe someone who fails to keep their word as dishonest. Moreover, guile and deception need not involve lying. Iago does not lie when he leaves Desdemona’s handkerchief for Othello to find. And there is being “economical with the truth”, and casuistry of all kinds. Understood thus, there is nothing untoward in Price grouping these desirable qualities together. But “veracity”, with its narrow implication of truth-telling, does not happily cover this wide range of characteristics and Price often forgets his official definition and equates honesty with truthfulness.