untruth
Example Sentences
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Afraid he would say, “There’ll be someone else soon,” and that forever afterward this untruth would lie between us.
From Literature
He could be in a police interview room, rather than under the TV lights, and the consequences of any untruths will be much more serious.
From BBC
Like some of her real-world counterparts, Madame M. is essentially a chief disinformation officer more interested in supplying untruth than decrying it.
It was a full-blooded attempt at character assassination, a branding of Rodgers as untrustful, a perpetrator of untruths, a spreader of falsehoods; divisive, misleading and unacceptable.
From BBC
She called it a "flat untruth" that she'd been the one who introduced the Duke of York to Epstein.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
