untruth

untruth
Synonyms and related words:
aberrancy, aberration, blague, canard, cock-and-bull story, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, errancy, erroneousness, error, exaggeration, fairy tale, fallaciousness, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fault, faultiness, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flaw, flawedness, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, inveracity, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misrepresentation, peccancy, perversion, pious fiction, prevarication, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, truthlessness, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruthfulness, white lie, yarn

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  • Untruth — Un*truth , n. 1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • untruth — index canard, deceit, deception, defamation, dishonesty, false pretense, falsehood, fiction, figment …   Law dictionary

  • untruth — O.E. untreowþ unfaithfulness, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + TRUTH (Cf. truth). Cf. O.N. utrygð. Meaning falsehood is attested from mid 15c., as is that of a lie …   Etymology dictionary

  • untruth — *lie, falsehood, fib, misrepresentation, story Analogous words: mendaciousness or mendacity, dishonesty, deceit fulness (see corresponding adjectives at DISHONEST): equivocation, tergiversation (see AMBIGUITY) Antonyms: truth Contrasted words:… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • untruth — [untro͞oth′] n. [ME untrouthe < OE untreowth < un , not + treowth,TRUTH] 1. the quality or state of being untrue; falsity 2. an untrue statement; falsehood; lie 3. Obs. unfaithfulness or disloyalty …   English World dictionary

  • Untruth — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Untruth >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth falsehood lie story thing that is not fib bounce crammer taradiddle whopper Sgm: N 1 jhuth jhuth GRP: N 2 …   English dictionary for students

  • untruth — n. to tell an untruth * * * [ʌn truːθ] to tell an untruth …   Combinatory dictionary

  • untruth — [[t]ʌ̱ntru͟ːðz[/t]] untruths N VAR An untruth is a lie. [FORMAL] The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths... I have never uttered one word of untruth. Syn: falsehood, lie …   English dictionary

  • untruth — noun 1) a patent untruth Syn: lie, falsehood, fib, fabrication, invention, falsification, half truth, exaggeration; story, myth, piece of fiction; informal tall story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, whopper 2) the total unt …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • untruth — UK [ʌnˈtruːθ] / US [ʌnˈtruθ] noun [countable] Word forms untruth : singular untruth plural untruths formal a lie There are many untruths written about him …   English dictionary

  • untruth — n. (pl. untruths) 1 the state of being untrue, falsehood. 2 a false statement (told me an untruth). Etymology: OE untreowth etc. (as UN (1), TRUTH) …   Useful english dictionary

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