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TRUTHLESS

Definition: TRUTHLESS

TRUTHLESS

Adjective

1. Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRUTHLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)


Synonyms within Context: TRUTHLESS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Falsehood

Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRUTHLESS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

truthless hero

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRUTHLESS

Language Translations for "TRUTHLESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), i gënjeshtërt (false, illusive, illusory, lying, mock, untrue). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неправдив, лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, untrue, untruthful, vain). (various references)

   

Czech

  

lživý (mendacious, untrue, untruthful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

valótlan (false, untrue). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uthlesstray

   

Portuguese

  

mentiroso (dissembler, double-tongued, fabulist, liar, lying, made-up, mendacious, phoney, romancer, shammer, sklent, untrue), infiel (dishonest, faithless, infidel, non-believer, recreant, trustless, unbeliever, unchristian, unfaithful), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), desleal (cammed, devious, dishonest, disloyal, faithless, false, hollow-hearted, recreant, shifty, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, trustless, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy), de má fé. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nesincer (backhand, devious, disingenuous, double faced, hollow-hearted, insincere, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous), neadevãrat (false, incorrect, untrue), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fast and loose, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, tricksy, troublesome, trustless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy, wonky), ложный (erroneous, fallacious, false, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, spurious, untrue, untruthful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neistinit (untrue, untruthful). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin verosimilitud, sin verdad, sin veras. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ненадійний (chancy, faithless, fallible, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, ramshackle, shifty, tickle, treacherous, trustless, unassured, unreliable, unsafe, unsure, untrustworthy, wacky, whacky), помилковий (bad, blundering, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, faulty, inaccurate, lying, mistaken, peccant, phony, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thật thà (crooked, disingenuous, uncandid), không chân thật (forked), không đúng sự thực, dối trá gian dối. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TRUTHLESS"

Words rhyming with "TRUTHLESS" (pronounced 'Truth"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TRUTHLESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: hurtless, hustlers, ruthless, shutters, shuttles.

-2 letters: hurtles, hustler, hustles, lushest, lusters, lustres, results, rustles, shtetls, shutter, shuttle, sleuths, sutlers, thrusts, turtles, ulsters.

-3 letters: estrus, hursts, hurtle, hustle, lusher, lushes, luster, lustre, result, rhesus, rhuses, rushes, russet, rustle, shtetl, shutes, sleuth, struts, sturts, surest, sutler, thrust, thurls, truest, trusts, truths, turtle, tushes, tusseh, tusser.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-r-s-s-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: shutterless.

 

+3 letters: truthfulness.

 

+4 letters: bottlebrushes, southeasterly, southwesterly, superathletes, troubleshoots.

 

+5 letters: truthfulnesses, untruthfulness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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