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untruthful

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The notion of letting someone off the subpoena hook because they are unwilling to testify, or because they are untruthful, or both, is distasteful.

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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.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to untruthful, such as: deceitful, deceptive, false, fraudulent, misleading, and untrustworthy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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