untruth
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5.5
- noun
- /ʌnˈtruːθ/
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falsedad
- It's when you print an untruth about someone that damages them, Luther.
- truths and untruths
I don't want untruths to be spread on the Internet.
- I don't want untruths to be spread on the Internet.
- That could be with conspiracy theories, untruths that could be spread like propaganda.
- You didn't tell an untruth, but it's not the way to explain it.
- We don't just need a system in which truth competes with untruth.
- And that's just pernicious, like, untruth.
- We all have a limited amount we can do in our personal lives in terms of trying to correct untruths, correct false narratives.
- There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth, even against the whole world, you were not mad.
- The ease with which a tweeted untruth can dominate a new cycle and hijack newsrooms for days is new in presidential politics.
- The untruth lies over here, so he says an untruth in perceiving it.
- But since the object is what is true, the untruth falls in me.
- And then this is the path of of untruth.
- And Trump tweeted or untruth social very clear mandate for our enemies.
Examples
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What else can you expect if you tell untruths that can easily be discovered?
Blog text (24) -
The ministers say you are spreading untruths about the messenger.
Fiction book (1992) -
I cannot tell the truth from the untruth.
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There is truth, and there is untruth.
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I don't want untruths to be spread on the Internet.
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We all have a limited amount we can do in our personal lives in terms of trying to correct untruths, correct false narratives.
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As Alatas cautioned, "Repetition of an untruth will ultimately make it appear as truth."
Academic text (1997) -
The ballads, which belong to a popular genre, are composed of truths and untruths.
Academic text (1993) -
Tort law requires that an untruth has been knowingly perpetrated and that belief in the untruth has damaged a plaintiff.
Academic text (1991) -
It's important to clarify that spreading an untruth can harm someone's reputation.
Synonyms
∞
2.7
A false statement told to trick someone
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4.6
Information that is wrong and shared by mistake
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4.3
A statement that is not true
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6.5
A false story made to trick people
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7.5
A statement that gives false information about something
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6.7
Nonsense talk that is not true
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5.8
An incorrect statement that gives the wrong facts
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7.9
A statement or idea that is not true
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5.4
An obvious statement that is not true and said without shame
A false statement used as evidence in law or argument
A report that gives wrong information, often by mistake
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untruth is made of un- and truth, where un- means 'not' and truth means 'what is true'. So untruth literally means 'not true', which is why it refers to a false statement or a lie.