Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking truth; lacking reality; untrue.
  • Faithless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

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  • adjective Lacking truth, untruthful.

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Examples

  • Senator Clinton's truthless, negative and recently most divisive 16 year Entitlement Campaign to the U.S. Presidency, has convinced me that Senator Obama is our only hope of defeating the Republicans.

    Poll of polls: Obama losing ground 2008

  • The coverage was "nowhere near the acme of ruthless, truthless journalism."

    The Making of a Mogul Yoni Goldstein 2008

  • As if the total suppression of human rights and liberties by truthless [never mind Godless] manipulators for the purposes of their own megalomaniacal advancement weren't horrifying enough in the abstract and scattered praxis where we've seen it, now they seek to put in harness the zombie drones they've created with their endless misinformation, and use them against those of us who think outside their box.

    Anti American 2008

  • Clearly the LDV Blogger Boys are not as truthless as some of their party associates.

    Lib Con Fight For Scraps: Devil is in the Detail Davis-wise 2007

  • Clearly the LDV Blogger Boys are not as truthless as some of their party associates.

    Archive 2007-09-23 2007

  • Whether you like Apple or not, they now carry that ruthless and truthless corporate taint to some degree.

    iTunes. Whose Tunes? 2004

  • In other words, even in a particularly truthless election year, the main argument of the supporters of Measure 36 is strikingly, unquestionably a lie.

    Alas, a blog » 2004 » October 2004

  • In other words, even in a particularly truthless election year, the main argument of the supporters of Measure 36 is strikingly, unquestionably a lie.

    Yale psychiatrist says he’s “dumbfounded” to be cited by opponents of same-sex marriage 2004

  • Whether you like Apple or not, they now carry that ruthless and truthless corporate taint to some degree.

    iTunes. Whose Tunes? 2004

  • Embraced by, arising from DRRII, then a lotus a Lakshmi, a Lady Prosperity, white, with one face and four arms, they are emanated forth and settle on the corolla of the lotus in the truthless corner.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Body, Speech, and Mind Sadhana Pan-chen dPal-ldan ye-shes 1985

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