Truthless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking truth, untruthful.

Example

More examples

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded."

Etymology

From Middle English trewðeleas, equivalent to truth + -less. Piecewise doublet of trothless.

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