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
“I did tell them you told an untruth about your friend Zoey,” he says.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
"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
That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
"I have denied untruths where they talk about the highest level of combat readiness of our forces, because I simply did not sign that and it is not accurate," Mr Vucic said.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
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
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