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as in erroneous
not being in agreement with what is true
"the sky is purple" is an untrue statement
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as in false
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
untrue to his country in its time of need
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Recent Examples of untrue
All of that was untrue as well because she was born and raised in India and lived in poverty throughout her childhood.
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Hazlitt, 30 Apr. 2025
Defamation claims must involve statements that are measurable, like untrue assertion of fact; statements of opinion are not defamatory.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The company previously said the union’s allegations were untrue.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
For the past few years, I have been concerned that my second husband’s story about his first wife may be untrue.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
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Hazlitt, 30 Apr. 2025
Defamation claims must involve statements that are measurable, like untrue assertion of fact; statements of opinion are not defamatory.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The company previously said the union’s allegations were untrue.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
For the past few years, I have been concerned that my second husband’s story about his first wife may be untrue.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrue
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Those have included other deportations to third countries and the erroneous deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran who had lived in Maryland for roughly 14 years working and raising a family.—
Julie Carr Smyth,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2025
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Those have included other deportations to third countries and the erroneous deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who had lived as a legal U.S. resident in Maryland for 14 years while working and raising a family.—
Julie Carr Smyth,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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The decision to deploy Dembele as a false nine for a 3-1 home win over Lyon in mid-December proved the spark for a stupendous run of goal-scoring form in which the France international racked up 27 goals in only 22 appearances.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Their accountant filed two false corporate tax returns, claiming one of the couple’s firms earned no money in 2015 and 2016.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Ortega also explained that her age makes people assume an inaccurate sense of naiveté.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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But this is inaccurate as grid-scale storage batteries (BESS) can resolve this problem.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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If a project fails because the decision to go ahead with the project turns out to be incorrect (which should happen frequently), that failure should not bear on the manager responsible for the project.—
Tim Koller,
Time,
20 May 2025
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The court had to issue a letter stating the interpretation was incorrect.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The cooling system in her second-story apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had always been unreliable.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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This showed that changes in the truck's speed produced turbulence in the liquid helium, making measurements of its presence unreliable.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2025
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For affluent Latino parents Enrique and Ilana Gomez, this moment goes hilariously wrong from the start, when their daughter Yoli invites her Mexican-born intended Marcos over to the family’s Pasadena home for dinner.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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But even putting O’Brien on notice would be an attempt to intimidate and silence a critic, which is plainly wrong.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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“Untrue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrue. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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