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untruth

[uhn-trooth] / ʌnˈtruθ /


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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

“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

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 ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

“It always starts off with one untruth, and that grows into two untruths, and that grows into more, and before long you have an entire conspiracy theory on your hands.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

I won’t speak untruths to you, I won’t pass easy compliments or odious offerings of flattery.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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