unfact

American  

[uhn-fakt] / ʌnˈfækt /

noun

Informal.

1. a fabrication that is disseminated as fact.

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Etymology

Origin of unfact

First recorded in 1885–90; un- ¹ + fact

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Example Sentences

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unfact

But the unfact is stated for a purpose: here the Reviewer mounts the high horse and poses as the Magister Morum per excellentiam.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

This is the usual half-truth and whole unfact.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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