untruth
Example Sentences
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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.
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
“I’m not going to call it an untruth. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I’m going to call it for what it is, which is a lie.”
From Los Angeles Times
That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
