untruth
noun
un·truth
ˌən-ˈtrüth 
ˈən-ˌtrüth
Examples of untruth in a Sentence
the untruths he has uttered
their argument rests on a fundamental untruth which has long been discredited
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This week, Stuart Heritage reports from the U.K. on why The Salt Path, the inspirational best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, now seems to be a hive of untruths.
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Air Mail, 19 July 2025
Social niceties and institutional language are his ways to tell untruths, even to himself, while keeping both the status quo and his organizational status intact.
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Air Mail, 19 July 2025
Social niceties and institutional language are his ways to tell untruths, even to himself, while keeping both the status quo and his organizational status intact.
—Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
At the celebration that follows their hair-raising return to Holy Island, Spike is disturbed by his father’s exultant untruths, regaling the crowd with false accounts of his son’s heroics when the squeamish boy had been too petrified to be of use during the attack.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
Here is the irony, though: The fiction writer’s craft, the instrument of his trade, revolves around the conjuring of untruths.
—Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for untruth
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“Untruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untruth. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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