Thesaurus / untruth
FEEDBACKHow to use untruth in a sentence
It’s perplexing for them to claim I’ve said things that are untrue about the investigation, without saying what those untruths are, when they haven’t even provided me or anyone with the findings of the investigation.
‘EXPECT A LEGAL CHALLENGE.’ OUSTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN PRESIDENT ALPHONSO DAVID STEEPED IN CONTROVERSYMADELEINE CARLISLESEPTEMBER 7, 2021TIMEThose outreach workers … would spend 20 minutes with one person trying to roll back untruths.
D.C. WON’T BRING BACK MASKS TO GUARD AGAINST DELTA VARIANT, OFFICIALS SAYJULIE ZAUZMERJULY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThere’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics.
MACHINE-LEARNING PROJECT TAKES AIM AT DISINFORMATIONMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INSIGHTSMAY 3, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWEvery day we tell many small untruths, lies uttered by mutual consent that keep societal interactions civil.
WE’RE CONSTANTLY FOOLING OURSELVES — AND THAT’S (MOSTLY) OKAYKATIE HAFNERMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLooking back, Lowery says, “The on-the-record statements they provided that evening were absolutely untrue and the only reason I was able to keep those untruths out of The Washington Post was because I was there,” says Lowery.
FAILED PROSECUTION OF IOWA REPORTER WAS AN ATTACK ON JOURNALISMERIK WEMPLEMARCH 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYOn the other hand it seems to be thought that there are people who are specially fitted to be the victims of untruth.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAn untruth is passed over carelessly and the child allowed to cover up its sins without realizing their sinfulness.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMAnd little better in results than telling an untruth is putting the child off till some future time.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMYou may say so without any risk of telling an untruth; for, on the word of a hunter, I never had such a tough job.
THE BORDER RIFLESGUSTAVE AIMARDWORDS RELATED TO UNTRUTH
- anecdote
- best seller
- book
- cliff-hanger
- clothesline
- concoction
- crock
- drama
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- fib
- figment of imagination
- fish story
- hooey
- imagination
- improvisation
- invention
- legend
- lie
- misrepresentation
- myth
- narrative
- novel
- potboiler
- prevarication
- romance
- smoke
- storytelling
- tale
- tall story
- terminological inexactitude
- untruth
- whopper
- work of imagination
- yarn
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
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