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Example sentences for "untruthful"

Lexicographically close words:
untruly; untruss; untrustworthiness; untrustworthy; untruth; untruthfulness; untruths; untuned; unturned; untutored
  1. Yet the sterility of hybrids defeats that possibility, and rebukes the untruthful claim of the formation of new species.

  2. The Oregonian published distorted and untruthful statements regarding the affair, and attorneys from every part of the State volunteered their services to defend me free of charge.

  3. Nevertheless grave evils had attended the process: overcapitalization was one; untruthful representations concerning the value of the properties in which business asked the public to invest was another.

  4. As the number of members increased, however, all manner of disquieting and untruthful rumors spread concerning its purposes, so that the element of secrecy was done away with in 1881 and a declaration of principles was made public.

  5. But how he could consent to join with Lucas in sending such an untruthful and infamous report to the governor about the situation in upper Missouri, is difficult to determine.

  6. Young Joseph is reported to have been a wild, reckless boy, dishonest, untruthful and intemperate.

  7. It may be observed that Byron, often an inaccurate, was sometimes an untruthful writer.

  8. If he knew Mrs. Shelley was keeping a daily record of his doings, he was untruthful in saying the letters would be the only record of those doings.

  9. One difficulty of the matter is that Byron, to say the least of it, was not quite, but almost, as untruthful as Shelley.

  10. Out of respect for themselves and their principles they should refrain from the ordinary untruthful practice of 'kept mistresses' and their keepers.

  11. I do not say she was an untruthful woman, though on some occasions she unquestionably rouses serious suspicion of her veracity.

  12. To account for his frequent departures from truth, friendly historians of his career have declared him, in respect to his misstatements, not so much an untruthful man as a deluded man.

  13. I am not the woman to have my husband called a--called untruthful without doing something about it.

  14. It would be untruthful to deny that David and 'Thusia were pleased.

  15. It is better for us to be poor than perverse or untruthful in our speech.

  16. And having spoken these words to his daughter, he also addressed her in wrath saying, 'Since thou hast deceived many Kings for this untruthful behaviour of thine, thy offspring will prove disrespectful to Brahmanas!

  17. One should conquer the mean by charity; the untruthful by truth, the man of wicked deeds by forgiveness; and the dishonest by honesty.

  18. Atheists, and untruthful persons, those that have not practised ascetic austerities and those that have not performed great sacrifices, cannot repair thither.

  19. He will soon discover that you are untruthful and will never again trust you so fully.

  20. There is Edgar growing very untruthful and defiant.

  21. If Trollope be indeed untruthful 'twere well that I should not be kept in ignorance.

  22. It was not the mere discovery that Jasper Oglander was untruthful which disturbed his peace of mind.

  23. Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; vanquish an angry man by gentleness; and overcome the evil man by goodness.

  24. And having spoken these words to his daughter, he also addressed her in wrath saying, "Since thou hast deceived many Kings for this untruthful behaviour of thine, thy offspring will prove disrespectful to Brahmanas!

  25. No, Marjorie; I get the cat to lick my face," the untruthful man replied.

  26. They feel that to give an untruthful answer, even under such circumstances as I have supposed, would be to burden themselves with the subsequent consciousness of cowardice or lack of self-respect.

  27. Illustration: "Instructed their retainers to make untruthful statements as to their whereabouts.

  28. They considered that this was modesty; but was it not just as untruthful as the commoner vice of assuming a style more showy than the means warrant?

  29. He may be untruthful in his plotting, if he devises situations arbitrarily for the sake of mere immediate effect.

  30. He may be untruthful in his comments on his characters, if the characters belie the comments in their actions and their words.

  31. He may be untruthful in his dialogue, if he puts into the mouths of his people sentences that their nature does not demand that they shall speak.

  32. He may be untruthful in his characterization, if he interferes with his people after they are once created and attempts to coerce them to his purposes instead of allowing them to work out their own destinies.

  33. He may be untruthful in his very theme, if he is lacking in sanity of outlook upon the things that are.

  34. It is only necessary to add that Rabbi Wise may be right, if the Gospel writers were untruthful men.

  35. They might as well have been omitted from the Gospel histories; and they would have been omitted by designing and untruthful men.

  36. I am not making an untruthful statement and do not wish to tax your belief unduly when I tell you that I did not take active part in these "crooked" doings.

  37. A man's conscience is the best barometer of his ability, and he who will pretend a disbelief in his ability is either untruthful or has an ulterior motif.

  38. A newspaper is as untruthful as an epitaph, Flynn.

  39. Do you really think that men are acting in a straightforward manner by writing unfair and untruthful articles for the public?

  40. Archie with untruthful brutality, and sat up in his bunk; "It's all through him.

  41. She knows that Marian is untruthful and dishonorable.

  42. You told me before I came to Wellington that Jane Allen was a hateful, deceitful, untruthful girl who had done you a lot of harm.

  43. Until Miss Noble came to you with this untruthful tale about me," finished Jane.

  44. It was most kind in you, Miss Marsh, and your friends also, to thus refuse to sign this hideously untruthful paper.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untruthful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.