How to Use untruth in a Sentence

untruth

noun
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  • Tim James said our school was a trans school, which is just an untruth.
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The benefits of all doubts are lost once a man tells so many untruths.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
  • The sheer rate of Trump's untruth-telling is staggering.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • Still, the 1940 Pinocchio does have a mischievous streak, along with his famed penchant for untruth.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2022
  • But the other truths and untruths lie somewhere in between.
    — Philip H. Devoe, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
  • But Bloomberg wasn't the only commencement speaker to speak of a culture of untruths this week.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2018
  • With Dima, the line between the concepts of truth and untruth was always shifting.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • But what’s also swirling are truths, half truths, and untruths about the coronavirus crisis.
    — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But detectives hunting for a killer saw the untruths as an effort to cover up his role in the slaying.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Some untruths floated in the wake of his departing UM not under the best of circumstances.
    — miamiherald, 6 Dec. 2012
  • What followed was a great quiet, a hundred years of agreed-upon untruth.
    — Longreads, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Lately, the president has been piling on the untruths even more than usual.
    — Marissa G. Muller, Teen Vogue, 3 Aug. 2018
  • And Sessions has sat through enough hearings to know his answers will come back to bite him if there is even an element of untruth.
    — Jen Psaki, CNN, 12 June 2017
  • Better behaviour by the giants, from Facebook to Fox, could limit the spread of untruths.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Confronted in a court case about this last untruth, Mr. Trump was anything but chagrined.
    — David Barstow, New York Times, 16 July 2016
  • Lies, untruths, and distortions of truth plague its workings.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • Another notable untruth: that all of the songs on the album were recorded at Woodstock.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Trump has learned the lesson of previous demagogues: the bigger and more flagrant the untruth, the better to prove the fealty of his Party.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 May 2021
  • But something similar happens with all the patent untruths Trump tells.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2017
  • And both, this past week, were accused of the same transgression – a failure to tell the truth, and telling further untruths when investigators pressed them.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
  • Maybe Ex has disseminated some untruths about the relationship; your friends will stand by you and who cares about the others.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the work has a much more general resonance, as well: The untruths are omnipresent, and their ubiquity can give the sensation that there’s no escape.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
  • For all the behind-the-scenes hand-wringing at Fox News about the dangerous untruths being spread by Trump in the wake of the 2020 election, the programming tone never really shifted.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Yet on the outskirts of Kendall’s storm of untruths, there are Shiv and Tom at least temporarily finding their way back to each other by finally being frank.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
  • Trump told the most extravagant untruths during the campaign, had the most glaring conflicts of interest and knew the least about governing.
    — Dana Milbank, The Denver Post, 14 June 2017
  • There are allegations and there have been through many elections that there is deception, untruth and mistruth in the election results.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2020
  • At times, there is a benign explanation for children telling untruths.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Trump and his acolytes use these attacks on the Fourth Estate to neutralize their own untruths, evasions and exaggerations.
    — Howard Kurtz, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
  • His backers spent three hours excusing their hero of each contradiction or untruth alleged by his foes.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, his untruths about both calling the soldiers and, based on Kelly’s account, the content of his call have managed to somehow even further degrade his honesty.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017

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