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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Untruth" Quotes from Famous Books

... can offer is the word of a noble lady who never told an untruth. God omnipotent, God omnipresent knows that my heart beats with admiration, reverence, and love for the king. I would rather die than ...

— Frederick the Great and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... men are strong, No life is good, no pleasure long, A weak and cowardly untruth! Our Clifford was a happy Youth, And thankful through a weary time That brought him up to manhood's prime. Again, he wanders forth at will, And tends a flock from hill to hill: His garb is humble; ne'er was seen Such garb with such a noble mien; ...

— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... sympathy, appeal to a great number of our other faculties, besides our mere sense of ridicule. The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness—your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture—your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments on all the ordinary actions and passions of life almost. He takes upon himself to be the week-day ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... pure as the driven snow, she did not require to be told that there were impurities in the world. If it was meant to be insinuated that he was untrue to her, she simply disbelieved it. But what if he were? His untruth would not justify hers. And untruth was impossible to her. She loved him, and had told him so. Let him be ever so false, it was for her to bring him back to truth or to spend herself in the endeavour. Her father did not understand ...

— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope

... happen that the testimony of a witness must occasion the death of a person, whatever the cast of the latter,—the witness shall, in such case, speak untruth.[163] For their purification [after giving such false testimony] the twice-born must make ...

— Hindu Law and Judicature - from the Dharma-Sastra of Yajnavalkya • Yajnavalkya

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