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were untruthful
adjective
Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
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McNamee did not indicate if his actions were not "right" because they were untruthful or because they implicated a friend.
Oddly, Brown barely mentions the sexually explicit preparatory notes for Madame Bovary: Flaubert hated obscene books only because they were "untruthful".
Crompton became chief constable in 2012 and by 2013 was embroiled in controversy after writing an email suggesting the Hillsborough families were untruthful and should be fought otherwise his force "will just be roadkill".
She also found that the agents' contention that they would have no further access to him after their initial meeting was "false" and that they were untruthful when they denied insinuating they could take Mr. Bout to the United States immediately if he "cooperated" and waived extradition.
Gerry McCann told the Leveson Inquiry many of the stories were untruthful, sinister or, he believed, made up.
Most telling, however, is the fact that the judges specifically found on the record that the testifying police officers were untruthful.
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Second, lying requires that the person believe the statement to be false; that is, lying requires that the statement be untruthful (untruthfulness condition).
It is untruthful.
But even Mr. Cohn admitted that Mr. Shehadeh had been untruthful.
Will we now find out that Mr. Paterson is untruthful?
Rather, he came to believe that by hiding his sexuality he was being untruthful to God.
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