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The adverb: doing something in a way that is not true — saying something while knowing it is false. It attaches to verbs of speaking and reporting: answer untruthfully, claim untruthfully, state untruthfully, testify untruthfully. Its natural home is formal and legal writing, where the exact wording matters: 'He untruthfully claimed to have a medical degree.' Notice where it likes to sit — most often right before the verb, or just after it ('he untruthfully stated' / 'he stated untruthfully'), rather than at the end of the sentence. It is quite a heavy, word, and in ordinary conversation almost nobody uses it; people say 'he lied about it' instead. The key idea it carries is deliberateness. Saying someone answered untruthfully is saying they chose to give a false answer, not that they made a mistake — which is exactly why courts and official reports prefer it.
不實地、說謊地(多用於正式或法律語境,如「不實陳述」)
組成untruthful(不誠實的)+ -ly(把形容詞變成副詞的尾巴)。所以是 un-(不)+ truth(真話)+ -ful + -ly,四層疊起來。
同家族的字
- untruthfulthe adjective this adverb is made from
- untruthsame un- + truth core
- truthfullythe same adverb without un-
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
untruthfullyadv
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In an untruthful manner; falsely.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。