The meaning of Untrue

verb

Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.

Usage examples:

She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him

verb

Past simple and past participle of concoct

Usage examples:

He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food., he concocted a story about wor…

adjective

Guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others.

Usage examples:

A deceitful politician

adjective

Marked by deliberate deceptiveness

verb

Deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain.

Usage examples:

I didn't intend to deceive people into thinking it was french champagne

verb

Present participle of deceive

Usage examples:

The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones., the sound of the door closing…

adjective

Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or organization to which one has obligations.

Usage examples:

She was accused of being disloyal to the government

adjective

Not loyal; acting to hurt someone you are expected to support

Usage examples:

His sisters thought that his autobiography was disloyal to the family.

adjective

Pulled or twisted out of shape; contorted.

Usage examples:

Then he took a few steps in her direction, his face distorted with rage.

verb

Pull or twist out of shape.

Usage examples:

A grimace distorted her mouth

adjective

Pulled into or appearing as a strange or unnatural shape

Usage examples:

His face was distorted in agony., everything looks distorted through the glass., this report gives …

noun

The act of cheating or tricking someone by hiding your real intentions

Usage examples:

Several high-ranking officials were named in the scandal, accused of fraud and double dealing.

adjective

Deceitful.

Usage examples:

A duplicitous philanderer

adjective

Involving duplicity

Usage examples:

A duplicitous traitor/spy/politician

adjective

Wrong; incorrect.

Usage examples:

Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions

adjective

Based on false information and therefore wrong; false

Usage examples:

An erroneous assumption

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

adjective

Disloyal, especially to a spouse or partner.

Usage examples:

Her faithless lover

adjective

Not loyal and not able to be trusted

Usage examples:

A faithless husband

adjective

Based on a mistaken belief.

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Fallacious arguments

adjective

Not correct

Usage examples:

His argument is based on fallacious reasoning.

adjective

Not according with truth or fact; incorrect.

Usage examples:

He was feeding false information to his customers

adjective

(of things) not real, but made to look real, or (of information) not true but made to seem true in order to deceive

Usage examples:

Haban used false identification to enter france., the company presented clients with documents cont…

adjective

Not true or correct

Usage examples:

It is an offense to give false information on your application form., the wanted man is known to be…

adjective

Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.

Usage examples:

A fatally flawed strategy

verb

Mar, weaken, or invalidate (something).

Usage examples:

The computer game was flawed by poor programming

adjective

Having or containing one or more faults, mistakes, or weaknesses

Usage examples:

Don't rush to another flawed conclusion., badly/deeply/seriously flawed these results were the outc…

adjective

Not accurate.

Usage examples:

False or inaccurate descriptions of goods

adjective

Not correct, or not exact

Usage examples:

Your information is inaccurate – i was born in 1956, not 1965., inaccurate measurements, [ c ] rose…

adjective

Not in accordance with fact; wrong.

Usage examples:

The doctor gave you incorrect advice

adjective

Exhibiting (or failing to exhibit) political correctness.

Usage examples:

It is not politically correct to laugh at speech impediments

adjective

Not correct; not accurate

Usage examples:

He charged that the news story was factually incorrect and demanded an apology., for each question …

adjective

Not quite accurate or correct.

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An inexact description

adjective

Not known in detail or not completely accurate

Usage examples:

Economics is an inexact science.

adjective

Not expressing genuine feelings.

Usage examples:

She flashed him an insincere smile

adjective

Not feeling, believing, or meaning something although you pretend to; not sincere

Usage examples:

An insincere promise/offer, there’s often a bit of insincerity in these speeches.

verb

Create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

Usage examples:

He invented an improved form of the steam engine

abbreviation

Mile(s).

Usage examples:

10 km/6 mi

abbreviation

Michigan (in official postal use).

noun

(in tonic sol-fa) the third note of a major scale.

adjective

Having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning.

Usage examples:

Their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country

verb

Mislead.

Usage examples:

A long survey that can only baffle and misguide the general reader

adjective

Unreasonable or unsuitable because of being based on a bad judgment of a situation or on information or beliefs that are wrong

Usage examples:

"the red shoes" was a misguided attempt to turn a ballet film into a musical.

adverb

Moving or appearing to move away from a particular place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden.

Usage examples:

He walked out into the street

preposition

Non-standard contraction of out of.

Usage examples:

He ran out the door

adjective

Not at home or at one's place of work.

Usage examples:

If he called, she'd pretend to be out

adjective

Deceitful and untrustworthy.

Usage examples:

A perfidious lover

adjective

Unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty

Usage examples:

She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.

adjective

Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

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A specious argument

adjective

Seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false

Usage examples:

A specious distinction, his whole argument is specious.

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treacherous.

Usage examples:

When his traitorous actions were discovered, he was imprisoned

adjective

Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.

Usage examples:

A treacherous gestapo agent

adjective

Tending to betray

adjective

(of the ground or the sea) extremely dangerous, esp. because of bad weather conditions

Usage examples:

Freezing rain made driving treacherous., he was treacherous, or at least sneaky.

adjective

Not to be trusted

Usage examples:

He’s a two-faced cheater.

adjective

Not faithful.

Usage examples:

We speak of faithful, and unfaithful portraits.

adjective

Not loyal or able to be trusted

Usage examples:

An unfaithful friend

adjective

Having no foundation or basis in fact.

Usage examples:

Her fear that she had cancer was unfounded

adjective

(of a claim or piece of news) not based on fact; untrue

Usage examples:

Unfounded rumors

adjective

If a claim or piece of news is unfounded, it is not based on fact

Usage examples:

Our fears about the weather proved totally unfounded.

adjective

Not able to be relied upon.

Usage examples:

He's lazy and unreliable

adjective

Not to be trusted or depended on

Usage examples:

Their carpenter was totally unreliable – he never finished the job.

adjective

Not safe or robust; in poor condition.

Usage examples:

The tower is structurally unsound

adjective

(esp. of activities) not suitable or acceptable

Usage examples:

He was involved in unsound banking practices., the bridge is structurally unsound.

adjective

Not able to be relied on as honest or truthful.

Usage examples:

Thomas considered her to be devious and untrustworthy

adjective

Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect.

Usage examples:

Companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures

adjective

Not telling the truth completely, or containing or telling lies

Usage examples:

He claimed that the report was inaccurate, untruthful, and incomplete., we are all very upset by th…

adjective

Not correct or true; incorrect.

Usage examples:

That is the wrong answer

adverb

In an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.

Usage examples:

What am i doing wrong?

noun

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

Usage examples:

I have done you a great wrong