| 单词 | untruth |
| 释义 | untruth (once / 3671 pages) n WORD FAMILY untruth: untruths+/true: trued, truely, trueness, truer, trues, truest, truing, truism, truly, truth, untrue/truism: truisms/truth: truthful, truths, untruth/truthful: truthfulest, truthfully, truthfulness, untruthful/untrue: untruely, untruest, untruly/untruthful: untruthfully, untruthfulness USAGE EXAMPLESPalestinians still widely promote this untruth in their official television and newspapers, whether from the PLO-controlled West Bank or Hamas-controlled Gaza. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) He is an electrifying villain in that film, a Phineas T Barnum of media untruth. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) Here’s No. 2: “Identify and follow many credible sources of news. Be very well-informed and learn to discern truth from untruth.” Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) n a false statement Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper falsehood, falsity true statement, truth a true statement dodge, dodging, scheme a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery lie, prevaricationa statement that deviates from or perverts the truth fable, fabrication, fictiona deliberately false or improbable account deceit, deception, misrepresentationa misleading falsehood contradiction, contradiction in terms(logic) a statement that is necessarily false bill of goodscommunication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable humbug, snake oilcommunication (written or spoken) intended to deceive antinomya contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable paradox(logic) a statement that contradicts itself fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddlea trivial lie jactitation(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) walloper, whoppera gross untruth; a blatant lie white liean unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite) canarda deliberately misleading fabrication half-trutha partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead facade, window dressinga showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant exaggeration, magnification, overstatementmaking to seem more important than it really is snow joba long and elaborate misrepresentation dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretensepretending with intention to deceive blind, subterfugesomething intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickeryverbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way duplicity, fraudulencea fraudulent or duplicitous representation equivocation, evasiona statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth statement a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc |
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