untruly

1. 1.

   in a untrue manner

   “he silenced the whisperings which connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation from his wife”

Questions about untruly

What does untruly mean?

untruly means "in a untrue manner".

How many syllables are in untruly?

untruly has 3 syllables and divides as un-tru-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is untruly a common word?

untruly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.