untruthful

Adjective

Meaning

Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

crooked shifty false wrong incorrect lying corrupt fake misleading inaccurate fictitious erroneous fabricated fraudulent spurious
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Antonyms

truthful boy scout Salim just right good
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Phrases with the word

untruthful behavior

Examples

the statement given under oath was untruthful Source: Internet

an untruthful person Source: Internet

Eliot, T. S. Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (Harcourt, 1997) ISBN 0-15-100274-6 As to earlier etymology the Oxford English Dictionary cites bull with the meaning "trivial, insincere, untruthful talk or writing, nonsense". Source: Internet

Doris alleged that Uche Elendu is being untruthful just as she is trying to take advantage of the situation at hand. Source: Internet

And it’s not even really a lie, she backs into it, being untruthful by not speaking—which is the same thing, ultimately. Source: Internet

A third, head diving coach John Appleman, instead pointed out to investigators that he had heard the diver had been untruthful in the past. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

untrusty untruth untruther untruthfully untruthfulness untruthiness