untruth
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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
She called it a "flat untruth" that she'd been the one who introduced the Duke of York to Epstein.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
The purpose is not to forward any one particular untruth, but to throw out so many conflicting and outrageous claims that people no longer know what to believe, or what they might do about it.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 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
"This has convinced me to write down my own thoughts and memories, once and for all," he said, adding many opinions were "based on untruths that have become accepted over time".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“The untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist history in your email paint a completely misleading narrative,” Shotwell told the Journal in a statement in 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
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 ● Feb. 19, 2026
So Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, told the journal, quote, “The untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist history in your email paint a completely misleading narrative,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
