Meaning of untrue in English
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Classifying Adjective
untrueDefinitions
1. not according with the factsExamples
- « unfortunately the statement was simply untrue »
- « the facts as reported were wrong »
Synonyms
- 2. not true to an obligation or trust
Examples
- « is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty-Bruno Laske »
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- 3. not accurately fitted
Examples
- « not level »
- « the frame was out of true »
- « off-level floors and untrue doors and windows »
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- 4. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection
Examples
- « unfaithful »
- « a false friend »
- « when lovers prove untrue »
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Famous quotes
- « The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. » Edward R. Murrow
- « The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. » Antisthenes
- « Of all lies, art is the least untrue. » Gustave Flaubert
- « When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. » Doris Lessing
- « My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. » Harvey Fierstein