untruth

IPA: ʌntrˈuθ

Examples of "untruth" in Sentences

The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.
We believe in the sanctity of truth, but untruth is not unethical in Marxist philosophies.
This untruth is promoted by figures on TV and the radio who should or, more likely, do know better.
One would normally think so, but what of the case where an untruth is valued more highly by someone than the truth?
At the time of his experiments with nitrous oxide James thought that religion, though it might be based on untruth from the scientific point of view, was nevertheless good for one.
A favourite and amusing mode of asseveration among the syeds, especially in testifying to an untruth, is "Beh ser e jeddam" (by the head of my grandfather), meaning Mahommed; indeed it is a common adage that the greatest swearers are the greatest liars.
The ignorant people in this County will get what they deserve in this election, just like they got Bush for two terms because they failed to see through his smear and fear tactics of untruth, which is exactly what both Hilary and McSame are doing in this election.
The untruth is that Susan Sontag once read a novel by Cathleen Schine and was so entertained by its subtle meditation on questions of female intellect and crippling illness that she borrowed its title for a play she’d been thinking about writing, a play about Alice James’ heroic struggle with cancer, all the while certain that nobody would ever make the connection or confront her with the possibility of influence.