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truthless, a.|ˈtruːθlɪs|
Forms: see truth.
[f. truth n. + -less.]
Destitute of truth (in various senses).
†1. Lacking faith; distrustful. (In quot. app. absol. as n.) Obs. rare—1.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 73 Ten þing..leten men of here scrifte,..shamfestnesse, drede, ortrowe, trewðeleas [app. gloss on ‘ortrowe’].
2. Faithless, unfaithful, perfidious. Obs. or arch.
1567Satir. Poems Reform. iv. 84 Off Tygeris quholpis,..Ane treuthles troup hes drewin me to this end. a1600Flodden F. ii. (1664) 15 And turn such truthless guest to teen.
3. Untruthful, mendacious; making false statements, ‘false’.
1567Satir. Poems Reform. iv. 41 My truethles toung my honoure defylit. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 251 He prooved a truthlesse Prophet. 1888Gd. Words Oct. 682 The truthless look, the shuffling gait, The mind that darkly schemes.
4. Having no truth in it, as a statement, etc.; void of truth; untrue, false.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 9 These opinions are altogether truthlesse. 1660Trial Regic. (1679) 235, I hope..that what I have said..is not Truthless but of Weight. 1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 715/1 Senseless and truthless clamour. 1911Contemp. Rev. Nov. 666 Idolators of truthless imaginations.
Hence ˈtruthlessness.
1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 494 Representatives of the wit and truthlessness of our age. 1900Morley Cromwell ii. v. 184 The letters disclosed his truthlessness. |