untruth
Example Sentences
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Like some of her real-world counterparts, Madame M. is essentially a chief disinformation officer more interested in supplying untruth than decrying it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
It follows that millions of applications have been filed over the years with some untruth inside, with the vast majority being approved.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
The crossbencher said, without that verification, "we're being asked to complicit in a present-day untruth and a future fantasy".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024
Afraid he would say, “There’ll be someone else soon,” and that forever afterward this untruth would lie between us.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.