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untrue

[uhn-troo] / ʌnˈtru /


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Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Arday said this was untrue and Liverpool John Moores University said after a review that it stood by the quality of the research.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

If he was implying that the money was specifically pigeonholed for an accelerated retirement of government securities, that’s untrue.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Eddins’ majority applied the false-evidence standard used when prosecutors knowingly present untrue testimony, holding that the state constitution makes the prosecutor’s knowledge irrelevant.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

Some of the things so far told the court are true and some are untrue.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

And Graham once more snatched her aloft, and she again punished him; and while she pulled his lion's locks, termed him—"The naughtiest, rudest, worst, untruest person that ever was."

From Villette by Charlotte Brontë




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