Antonyms for untrue

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uhn-troo

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈtru

Definition of untrue

Origin : Old English untreowe "unfaithful" (of persons), from un- (1) "not" + true (adj.). Cf. Middle Dutch ongetrouwe, Middle Low German ungetruwe, Old High German ungitriuwi, Old Norse utryggr. Meaning "contrary to facts" is attested from c.1300.

adj dishonest

Example sentences :

It would be untrue to say that Hester was not interested in the news.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

It is all untrue; actors were then, as now, only mummers without judgement.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

In these many years I have never been untrue to you in a single thought.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

But I will not believe you when you tell me what I know to be untrue.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

All of which Tony Cornish remembered later; for it was untrue.
Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman

Denial would be useless, and in denying, you would be untrue to yourself.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

His picture of the Doge's palace at Venice was quite clay-cold and untrue.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

But I should like to know, Socrates, whether you mean to say that all this is untrue?'
Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato

But then I suppose you will say that what he creates is untrue.
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

Then one half of the saying is untrue, if the wicked are like one another?
Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato

Synonyms for untrue

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