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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Untrue \Un*true\, adverb Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Untrue \Un*true"\, adjective
1. Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue.
2. Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
untrue
adjective
1: not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"; "the facts as reported were wrong" [syn: {wrong}]
2: not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
3: not accurately fitted; not level; "the frame was out of true"; "off-level floors and untrue doors and windows" [syn: {out of true}]
4: (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [syn: {false}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "untrue": aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, capricious, contrary to fact, corrupt, deceitful, deceptive, defective, delusive, derelict, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious, disaffected, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, disregardful, distorted, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, fickle, flawed, forsworn, heretical, heterodox, hypocritical, illogical, illusory, imperfect, imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inattentive, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, inobservant, insincere, misleading, mistaken, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant, not right, not true, not true to, of bad faith, off, off the track, out, peccant, perfidious, perjured, perverse, perverted, recreant, self-contradictory, specious, straying, substandard, traitorous, treacherous, trothless, truthless, two-faced, uncompliant, unconforming, undependable, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded, unloyal, unobservant, unorthodox, unprecise, unproved, unreliable, unsound, unsteadfast, untrustworthy, wide, wrong
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