Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being truthless.

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  • noun The state of being truthless, untruthfulness.

Etymologies

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truth + -lessness (-less + -ness)

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Examples

  • CNN most often leaves out reporting on right wing truthlessness so to seem unbiased, but instead makes it look like that CNN supports some of those right wing agendas.

    Networks respond to false Fox ad 2009

  • Mainstream media's job is to point out truth and truthlessness.

    Networks respond to false Fox ad 2009

  • We'll stop listening to the truthlessness of your Hannitized Kool-aid rants and your Limbaughed line of fear-paralyzed thought.

    Some Random Thoughts on the Election 2008

  • We're supposed to suspend disbelief and the worst track record for truthlessness since the proverbial Boy Who Cried Wolf, and give Bush and company yet another free pass?

    Mahmoud and Me 2007

  • This isn't to say that we must return to some epistemology of rationalist certainty, or that we already have—quite the opposite, any movement forward will need to synthesize positivism and relativism while moving past both—but merely that a politics of utter truthlessness has no ground on which to stake a claim, much less revolutionize anything.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • Burke warmly denounced the truthlessness of the Duke's tattle.

    Burke Morley, John 1907

  • This isn’t to say that we must return to some epistemology of rationalist certainty, or that we already have—quite the opposite, any movement forward will need to synthesize positivism and relativism while moving past both—but merely that a politics of utter truthlessness has no ground on which to stake a claim, much less revolutionize anything.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

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