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/əntrˈuθ/ Listen

noun

Untruth n.

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty.

Synonyms: Lie; falsehood. See Lie.

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Etymology of 'Untruth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Untruth" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sex, and all that Nicety I've hitherto preserv'd.' There needed no more from a Maid of Isabella's Integrity and Reputation, to convince any one of the Sincerity of what she said, since, in the whole course of her Life, she never could be charg'd with an Untruth, or an Equivocation; and Katteriena assur'd her, she believ'd her, and was infinitely glad she had vanquish'd a Passion, that would have prov'd destructive to her Repose: Isabella reply'd, She had ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... be talking now if I had not stamped my foot and stopped his rambling. His insinuations sounded as if I were a feeble-minded creature and couldn't tell truth from untruth, or know when a man meant or didn't mean what he said, and had never heard things of the same sort before. I've heard them before, and in several different places. I am a good many things I ought not to be, but I am not feeble-minded. ...

— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher

... a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent merits—thereby distorting their esthetic and ethical understanding—is a great evil, as is every untruth. ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. • Various

... is more sacred than anything else to scouts and gentlemen; the disdain of telling or implying an untruth; absolute trustworthiness and faithfulness. ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... no compromise was possible between truth and untruth. (As he once said, when urged to write a more eulogistic notice of a dead friend than he thought deserved], "The only serious temptations to perjury I have ever known have arisen out of the desire to be of some comfort to people I cared for in ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

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