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单词 untruthful
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Definition of untruthful in English:

untruthful

adjectiveʌnˈtruːθf(ə)lʌnˈtruːθfʊlˌənˈtruθfəl
  • Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect.

    companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I wanted to target children with an advert that parents wouldn't want their kids to see, even though it's not as manipulative or untruthful as any of the thousands of adverts they let their children see.
    • At best it was enormously misleading, and at worst it was untruthful.
    • ‘It's clear from the subpoena that they are looking at him and the possibility he may have given untruthful testimony to the grand jury,’ his lawyer said.
    • A victim said he was shocked and appalled that anyone could make such an unfounded and untruthful remark.
    • Such explanations of his conduct as he has given from time to time have been devious and untruthful.
    • I reject that evidence as an untruthful invention.
    • He questioned the motivation behind what he portrayed as ‘misleading and untruthful allegations’.
    • It may be untruthful and it may be wrong, but usually, each of these things gets a little nearer the truth.
    • He may be surrounded by ruthless war criminals and scandalously untruthful statesmen, but it's hard to believe that he wants other human beings to suffer.
    • ‘Sir Alan has said that he doesn't believe that people have been untruthful about something that happened 20 months ago,’ he said.
    • She is as untruthful as she is flattering.
    • We don't want it be used by a small number of people who may use the opportunity of public hearings under privilege to make patently untruthful allegations.
    • This has led to frequent spats sometimes among themselves but usually involving media personnel, whom they accuse of being biased and untruthful in their reporting.
    • The abstract element involved also reflects the fact that the test is not whether the actual confession was untruthful or inaccurate.
    • I never was knowingly untruthful with my colleagues, the grand jury, the President, the FBI, or the special counsel.
    • As an example, a Hong Kong NPC representative has condemned unnamed radio hosts for using the public airwaves to make untruthful statements that caused social instability.
    • Now, the advertising brochure was untruthful because no seminar had been planned.
    • Most politicians lie either because electors expect them to, or because they know that if they do not their opponent will lie about the same issue, and as a result of their truthfulness they will lose to an untruthful opponent.
    • The defendants applied to the court to vary the order relying on the false documents and untruthful affidavits.
    • The BBC's defence correspondent who is based at the coalition command centre in Qatar complained that the corporation was conveying a untruthful picture of how the war was progressing.
    Synonyms
    false, untrue, fabricated, made up, invented, concocted, trumped up
    erroneous, in error, wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact
    flawed, specious, fallacious, unsound, unfounded, misguided, distorted, out, misleading
    fictitious, fabulous, mythical, mythological
    humorous economical with the truth
    lying, mendacious, perfidious, dishonest, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, duplicitous, dissimulating, dissembling, false, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, guileful, underhand, sneaky, disingenuous
    informal crooked, bent, tricky
    archaic hollow-hearted

Derivatives

  • untruthfully

  • adverbʌnˈtruːθfʊliʌnˈtruːθf(ə)liˌənˈtruθfəli
    • When I got one on the phone, I recapped the previous two sessions and said, most untruthfully, that I'd re-installed the old Speedstream modem Verizon had originally equipped me with.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Parking attendants often continue issuing the ticket after the vehicle has left the scene and then untruthfully write in their logbook that the ticket was FTW (fixed to windscreen) or GTD (given to driver).
      • Women can of course decline to answer the question or answer it untruthfully.
      • ‘It hadn't crossed my mind,’ I replied untruthfully, with my toes crossed.
      • Before people had set off for Auchterarder, a police source had untruthfully informed the media that the organisers had cancelled the march.
  • untruthfulness

  • nounʌnˈtruːθfʊlnəsʌnˈtruːθf(ə)lnəsˌənˈtruθfəlnəs
    • Surely it is the untruthfulness of the allegation being championed by the BBC which continues to provoke what looks like an understandable reaction among members of the government and its sympathisers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I never much liked it; I was always unsettled by its glaring untruthfulness.
      • Honesty and sincerity to ourselves is the decoding agent that unscrambles the web of illusion created by our untruthfulness.
      • The reporter must have forgotten those common sense soldiers on the HMS Ark Royal who turned off the BBC in disgust at its bias and untruthfulness.
      • She claims that he has acknowledged the untruthfulness of this story to her over the years.
 
 

Definition of untruthful in US English:

untruthful

adjectiveˌənˈtro͞oTHfəlˌənˈtruθfəl
  • Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect.

    companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We don't want it be used by a small number of people who may use the opportunity of public hearings under privilege to make patently untruthful allegations.
    • I reject that evidence as an untruthful invention.
    • Now, the advertising brochure was untruthful because no seminar had been planned.
    • A victim said he was shocked and appalled that anyone could make such an unfounded and untruthful remark.
    • Most politicians lie either because electors expect them to, or because they know that if they do not their opponent will lie about the same issue, and as a result of their truthfulness they will lose to an untruthful opponent.
    • As an example, a Hong Kong NPC representative has condemned unnamed radio hosts for using the public airwaves to make untruthful statements that caused social instability.
    • It may be untruthful and it may be wrong, but usually, each of these things gets a little nearer the truth.
    • He may be surrounded by ruthless war criminals and scandalously untruthful statesmen, but it's hard to believe that he wants other human beings to suffer.
    • The abstract element involved also reflects the fact that the test is not whether the actual confession was untruthful or inaccurate.
    • I wanted to target children with an advert that parents wouldn't want their kids to see, even though it's not as manipulative or untruthful as any of the thousands of adverts they let their children see.
    • The defendants applied to the court to vary the order relying on the false documents and untruthful affidavits.
    • ‘It's clear from the subpoena that they are looking at him and the possibility he may have given untruthful testimony to the grand jury,’ his lawyer said.
    • At best it was enormously misleading, and at worst it was untruthful.
    • She is as untruthful as she is flattering.
    • ‘Sir Alan has said that he doesn't believe that people have been untruthful about something that happened 20 months ago,’ he said.
    • The BBC's defence correspondent who is based at the coalition command centre in Qatar complained that the corporation was conveying a untruthful picture of how the war was progressing.
    • This has led to frequent spats sometimes among themselves but usually involving media personnel, whom they accuse of being biased and untruthful in their reporting.
    • He questioned the motivation behind what he portrayed as ‘misleading and untruthful allegations’.
    • I never was knowingly untruthful with my colleagues, the grand jury, the President, the FBI, or the special counsel.
    • Such explanations of his conduct as he has given from time to time have been devious and untruthful.
    Synonyms
    false, untrue, fabricated, made up, invented, concocted, trumped up
    lying, mendacious, perfidious, dishonest, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, duplicitous, dissimulating, dissembling, false, double-dealing, two-faced, janus-faced, guileful, underhand, sneaky, disingenuous
 
 
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