What's the difference between truth and untruthful?

Truth


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
  • (n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
  • (n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
  • (n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
  • (n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
  • (n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
  • (n.) Righteousness; true religion.
  • (v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Milo, he appears to be – to some extent – convinced of the truth of what he’s saying.
  • (2) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (3) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
  • (4) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
  • (5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (6) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
  • (7) It is a truth universally acknowledged that it takes fewer votes to elect a Labour than a Conservative government.
  • (8) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
  • (9) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (10) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (11) We demand to know the truth.” Earlier, a small group of relatives were removed by police after protesting outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
  • (12) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
  • (13) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (14) I still think that it’s good we’re conducting air strikes – the truth is that we probably need more” in Iraq, Rubio said Wednesday.
  • (15) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
  • (16) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
  • (17) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
  • (18) It’s impossible to automate fully the process of separating truth from falsehood, and it’s dubious to cede such control to for-profit media giants.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (20) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.

Untruthful


Definition:

  • (a.) Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clapper has since admitted that was the "least untruthful" answer he could have given.
  • (2) Getting your child a place in your local school becomes more and more difficult; there is more competition for jobs; wages are held down.” As the war of words heightened, the Tory former PM Sir John Major accused the leave side of telling deliberate untruths.
  • (3) The second alleged untruth surrounds the police claim that they properly investigated the use of the gun Duggan had in a pistol whipping attack weeks before he collected it.
  • (4) Leahy, joined by ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, criticised director of national intelligence James Clapper for making untruthful statements to Congress in March about the bulk phone records collection on Americans, and NSA director Keith Alexander for overstating the usefulness of that collection for stopping terrorist attacks.
  • (5) Describing how his reputation had been destroyed by Rowland's "untruths", the former chief whip, who lost his job over the row, said the officer's claims that he called the police "plebs" and swore at them were "made up and disseminated" by Rowland himself.
  • (6) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
  • (7) The family of Ian Tomlinson said Scotland Yard’s statement marked the end of a long legal battle in the face of untruthful accounts and obstruction by PC Simon Harwood, who assaulted Tomlinson, and other officers.
  • (8) There were so many stories, so many rumours, so many repeated untruths, so many unchecked facts and retweeted opinions, and half-baked half-lies, that the story, let alone the truth, never had a chance.
  • (9) Bob Shrum , a Democratic consultant who worked for Al Gore and John Kerry, said: “The untruths are more noticeable now because they’re in the White House but her pattern all along was to say whatever pops into her head that she thinks defends [Trump].
  • (10) Whatever, he should not be allowed to get away with untruths.
  • (11) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
  • (12) Voters in Stoke who previously said they’d vote for him are sure to be put off as Ukip is revealed as just another political party peddling in untruths.
  • (13) Cameron accused the leave side of “resorting to total untruths to con people into taking a leap in the dark: it’s irresponsible and it’s wrong and it’s time that the leave campaign was called out on the nonsense that they are peddling.” But instead of forcing the other side to defend its claims, Cameron’s attack fed an atmosphere of general detachment from rational argument and empirical evidence.
  • (14) It's surely not just me who, reading this, thinks of the government telling us, in the brazen untruth akin to O'Brien convincing Winston Smith that two plus two equals five, that we're all in this together.
  • (15) "The picture painted for the PAC by the BBC Trust witnesses on 10 July 2013 was – in addition to specific untruths and inaccuracies – fundamentally misleading about the extent of Trust knowledge and involvement," he writes.
  • (16) They have – knowingly – told untruths about the cost of Europe .
  • (17) Burke asks him to withdraw an "untruthful statement".
  • (18) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
  • (19) He said the NSA had no such program – and then added that that was the least "untruthful" remark he could make.
  • (20) In the document leaked onThursday, Thompson accuses the two of trading in "specific untruths and inaccuracies".