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Mama was speaking of a servant who had been pretty unveracious, but was now "trying to tell the truth."

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

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

What confused me was the unveracious manner in which historical instruction, which was wholly theological, was given.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

"It is quite certain," he replied; "it was in the German telegrams, and so far there has not come a single unveracious telegram from the Germans."

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

If one faculty is unveracious and unreliable, how can we determine that the other is not equally so?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)