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# untruthful

«untruthful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not telling the truth; lying** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (untruthful); adverb untruthfully

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not telling the truth; lying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#m1)

2) (of a statement) Not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A softer, more formal word than «lying» or «a liar», used in school, reports and stories about honesty. Tells the reader a character cannot be trusted. In safety, adverts or online messages may be untruthful.

### examples

- It is untruthful to say you finished when you didn't. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x1)
- The advert made untruthful claims about the toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x2)
- He was untruthful about where he had been. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x3)
- Being untruthful can break a friend's trust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x4)
- The judge said the witness had been untruthful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x5)
- Her untruthful excuse fooled nobody. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/#x6)

### note

Takes «an». Gentler than «liar» but means the same idea. Opposite: truthful, honest. A mistake is not always untruthful: lying means knowing it is false.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «untruthful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/untruthful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.