be untruthful
Example Sentences
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It accepted that despite coaching the patient, Dr Ogbonna did not ask her to be untruthful.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024
You can use this to frame a conversation about why it is appropriate, kind even, to be untruthful under certain circumstances: childhood mythologies, planning someone’s secret birthday party, kindly fibbing to avoid hurting someone’s feelings.
From Slate • Dec. 25, 2020
Arguments for including the job: It fills the gap, it shows a career path of increasing responsibility, and it would not be untruthful to say that you left the job because of the pandemic.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2020
Judge Lee, who is now retired, declined to comment further on the case but said that he stood by the statements he made in court that he found Mr. Monahan to be untruthful.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020
She was ashamed of being irritated from some cause she could not define even to herself; for though she had no intention to be untruthful, her reply had not touched the real hurt within her.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
