untruth
Americannoun
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the state or character of being untrue.
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want of veracity; divergence from truth.
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something untrue; a falsehood or lie.
- Synonyms:
- invention, fabrication, tale, story, fiction
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Archaic. unfaithfulness; disloyalty.
noun
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the state or quality of being untrue
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a statement, fact, etc, that is not true
Synonym Usage
See falsehood.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of untruth
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English untrēowth: see un- 1, truth
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
That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
The crossbencher said, without that verification, "we're being asked to complicit in a present-day untruth and a future fantasy".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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