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Untruth

//ʌnˈtɹuːθ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A lie or falsehood. countable, uncountable

    "He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted."

  2. 2
    a false statement wordnet
  3. 3
    The condition of being false; truthlessness. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English untreuth, from Old English untrēowþ and unġetrēowþ, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwiþu and *ungatriuwiþu, equivalent to un- + truth. Cognate with Old High German ungitriuwida.

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