untruthnoun
uk/ʌnˈtruːθ/us/ʌnˈtruːθ/[ C ] a statement that is not true:
It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's private lives.
[ U ] the fact that something is not true:
The untruth of this statement was immediately clear to me.
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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