Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being untrue.
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- noun The state or condition of being
untrue ;falsehood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A very keen ear is required to appreciate fully the nature of this untrueness to the pitch.
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Which being so, the distaste of readers to the contrary sort in books, can hardly arise from any sense of their untrueness.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Which being so, the distaste of readers to the contrary sort in books, can hardly arise from any sense of their untrueness.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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Triteness is bad because it's untrue, and untrueness is bad because it is a waste of time and energy and, somehow, unjust.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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Triteness is bad because it's untrue, and untrueness is bad because it is a waste of time and energy and, somehow, unjust.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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