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Much of what Job said for himself was unveracious and mistaken.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William

As Tennyson says, "A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies," and this fellow would seem to have been an adept in unveracious exaggeration.

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston

Her confession was as grotesque and unveracious as that of any of her associates.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

The alliance between intellectual and moral perversion is strikingly typified by the way in which he alternates from the unveracious to the absurd, from misrepresentation to contradiction. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

Neither Dickens nor Hardy can be called unveracious writers; both give a picture of life that is true up to a point.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.