untrueness

The dark side lies in untrueness born of constant fear of the consequence of every trifling act, moral impurity that steeps even the children—wild jealousy that will make them pine away and die if a rival baby comes.

A very keen ear is required to appreciate fully the nature of this untrueness to the pitch.

Which being so, the distaste of readers to the contrary sort in books, can hardly arise from any sense of their untrueness.

But when we go lower in the scale, and leave the class of philosophic novels, we find their tales of life and manners still more absurd in their total untrueness than the others were hateful in their design.