untruthfulness
IPA: ʌntrˈuθfʌɫnʌs
noun
- The state of being untruthful; dishonesty.
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Examples of "untruthfulness" in Sentences
- With her, untruthfulness had always been a difficult matter.
- Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
- You are looking for signs of weakness, for twitches that indicate untruthfulness, for signs of prevarication and mendacity.
- Mr. Gugle's letter of apology does not come across as contrite, it's more like he seeks to self rationalize his untruthfulness.
- This invitation, combined with other evidence that police believe indicates her untruthfulness, has obvious implications for her charge of rape.
- Hellman was repeatedly accused of untruthfulness, most notably by her longtime adversary Mary McCarthy, who announced on US television: "Every word Hellman writes is a lie – including 'and' and 'the'."
- I think if one puts the issue in terms of moral responsibilities about what should or should not be remembered, Muller may have a stronger argument than his original framing of it in terms of 'untruthfulness' which requires a higher standard of evidence.
- Yes and No in affirmations and denials -- as if our word for it were not enough, and we expected others to question it -- springs from that vicious root of untruthfulness which is only aggravated by the very effort to clear ourselves of the suspicion of it.
- As a law enforcement veteran, now retired with over 36 years of service, I worked during this era of protest and I also subscribed to the rule that intentional” untruthfulness is a gross disqualification of anyone for the police service” and observed a number of officers who were proven to be untruthful terminated and relieved of their employment and even criminally prosecuted and gone to prison.
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