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[ uhn-troo ] / ʌnˈtru / SEE SYNONYMS FOR untrue ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, un·tru·er, un·tru·est.not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard. unfaithful; false. incorrect or inaccurate. Origin of untruebefore 1050; Middle English untrewe,Old English un(ge)trēowe;see un-1, true SYNONYMS FOR untrue1 groundless, unfounded, erroneous. SEE SYNONYMS FOR untrue ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM untrueun·true·ness, nounWords nearby untrueuntreated, untried, untrimmed, untrod, untroubled, untrue, untruss, untrustworthy, untruth, untruthful, untuck Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for untrueMaxwell was not available for comment but has described all claims against her as “untrue” and “obvious lies.” From Playboy Prince to Dirty Old Man?|Tom Sykes|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST Maxwell was not available for comment describes all claims against her as “untrue” and “obvious lies.” Buckingham Palace Disputes Sex Allegations Against Prince ‘Randy Andy’|Tom Sykes|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST If they are untrue, I can understand your irritation, yet you have never roundly denied them. Dear John, It Gets Better: A Letter to Travolta|Tim Teeman|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST When I asked the conservative, Jewish New York Times columnist David Brooks, he dismissed it as “untrue.” President Obama Needs to Defend Chuck Hagel If He Is Nominated for Secretary of Defense|Peter Beinart|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
When I asked the conservative, Jewish New York Times columnist David Brooks, he dismissed it as “untrue.” Hey Obama: Defend Chuck Hagel!|Peter Beinart|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST The whole world may believe it and yet it be untrue; the whole world may refuse to believe it, and yet it be true. The Plan of Salvation|John Morgan All notions of exactions and monopolies, therefore, must be untrue, as applied to those two interests at that day. The Chainbearer|J. Fenimore Cooper On Varnishing Day Stanfield urged that the sails were untrue. "Perhaps what the women tell us is untrue," the other suggested. The Lost Heir|G. A. Henty I do not say that her connections were splendid, or that she made an absolute msalliance, for that would be untrue. At His Gates, Vol. 1(of 3)|Margaret Oliphant
British Dictionary definitions for untrue
adjectiveincorrect or false disloyal diverging from a rule, standard, or measure; inaccurate Derived forms of untrueuntrueness, noununtruly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to untrueincorrect, erroneous, inaccurate, unsound, spurious, apocryphal, distorted, mistaken, fictitious, specious, wrong, misleading, untruthful, deceptive, unfaithful, false, cheating, deceitful, delusive, deviant |