adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
patently false/untrue
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To say that the proposal has no disadvantages at all is patently untrue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is untrue that the college broke the terms of the contract.
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The interviewer made it sound like I thought it was okay to hit a woman, which is totally untrue .
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The report has proven this information to be untrue .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But perhaps people tell him things that are untrue .
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Furthermore, he admitted to having given the ethics panel untrue information when it investigated those projects.
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He does not wish to be misled, or to have his options curbed by rash declarations that prove to be untrue .
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How do we form our judgements as to what is true and what is untrue about the world?
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It is also misleading because it is thought to be unhistorical and untrue .
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It wasn't that the McCain campaign leaflet was untrue .
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The real problem, though, is that the basis of Hopkins's argument is demonstrably untrue .
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They said the claims were untrue .