untruth

[uhn-trooth]

noun

plural

untruths 

1. the state or character of being untrue.

2. want of veracity; divergence from truth.

3. something untrue; a falsehood or lie.

   Synonyms: invention, fabrication, tale, story, fiction

4. Archaic.,  unfaithfulness; disloyalty.

untruth

/ ʌnˈtruːθ /

noun

1. the state or quality of being untrue

2. a statement, fact, etc, that is not true

Word History and Origins

Origin of untruth¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English untrēowth: un- ¹, truth

Synonym Study

See falsehood.

Example Sentences

Like some of her real-world counterparts, Madame M. is essentially a chief disinformation officer more interested in supplying untruth than decrying it.

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It was a full-blooded attempt at character assassination, a branding of Rodgers as untrustful, a perpetrator of untruths, a spreader of falsehoods; divisive, misleading and unacceptable.

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“I believe so much of it is pure old-fashioned antisemitism grounded in bad information and untruths.”

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Rev McCarthy said there were some people "not very happy about resources being taken up" but also a "lot of untruth" about what asylum seekers receive.

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She called it a "flat untruth" that she'd been the one who introduced the Duke of York to Epstein.

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Related Words

• distortion 
• misrepresentation 
• whopper