Meanings
noununtruthfulness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being untruthful; dishonesty.
Subtlety may indeed effect a victory at the deadening cost of a sin, but timeservingness can only get transitory advantage, while the damage of its untruthfulness leaves its corroding taint behind for ever.
1855, The Ecclesiastic, page 346
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Italian bugiardaggine
- bugiardagginestate of being untruthful
Romanian neveridicitate
- neveridicitatestate of being untruthful
Russian лживость, неправдивость
- лживость (lživostʹ)state of being untruthful
- неправдивость (nepravdivostʹ)state of being untruthful
- недостоверность (nedostovernostʹ)state of being untruthful
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“untruthfulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untruthfulness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untruthfulness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untruthfulness.
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