Truthless
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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