Skip to main content

untruthful

/uhn-trooth-fuhl/US // ʌnˈtruθ fəl //UK // (ʌnˈtruːθfʊl) //

虚情假意,不真实的,不真实,不诚实的

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.dishonest

Examples

  • But, according to ADF, any conclusion Barrett wasn’t untruthful in previous testimony based on that webpage is incorrect.

  • “So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner, by saying, ‘No,’” he told Mitchell.

  • He said it was the least “untruthful” response he could think of.

  • Unfortunately, however, the legacy of Malcolm X was too often subject to unlawful, untruthful, and unfair reporting.

  • Mendax is derived from splendide mendax, which is from Horace and means “nobly untruthful.”

  • Then there is his reliance on sources who have proven time and again to be untruthful.

  • Newspaper headlines are usually attractive enough, but shamefully untruthful.

  • She was ignorant because of lack of opportunity, untruthful because she was ignorant; she could not see the relations of things.

  • A third may be both inaccurate and untruthful, caring not so much for anything as to write his book.

  • These two children were full of vices—the little girl was untruthful, the boy brutish.

  • Kate had an untruthful nature and was given to prevari-Kate, so she got into trouble, and engaged an advo-Kate.