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.

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

That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

It was the first time in my life I had ever looked them in the eye and told an untruth.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals