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Explore Untruth through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like falsehood or falsity. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Untruth in a sentence

Untruth meaning

  1. A lie or falsehood.
  2. The condition of being false; truthlessness.

Synonyms of Untruth

Using Untruth

  • The main meaning on this page is: A lie or falsehood. | The condition of being false; truthlessness.
  • Useful related words include: falsehood, falsity, statement, truth.
  • In the example corpus, untruth often appears in combinations such as: untruth that, of untruth, an untruth.

Context around Untruth

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Untruth

  • In this selection, "untruth" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, cheerful, factual, thought, tellers, davidson and requires stand out and add context to how "untruth" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a deliberate untruth and as and and the untruth tellers is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "untruth" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with untruth

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

That untruth was quickly exposed. (5 words)

When he explained, ‘A lie is knowing you are telling an untruth. (12 words)

In the presence of untruth, injustice, hatred and violence we cannot remain silent. (13 words)

With the Super Bowl at hand, behold the cheerful untruth that has been perpetrated upon (and generally with the blessing of) the chicken-consuming citizens of the United States on menus across the land: a “boneless wing” that isn’t a wing at all. (44 words)

What should be made crystal clear to the doubters and the speculators and the untruth-tellers is that in no way was the naira swap “engineered” to keep the President in office beyond May 29. Nothing could be further from the truth. (42 words)

The statement "Being in politics is just like playing golf : you are trapped in one bad lie after another" puns on the two meanings of the word lie as "a deliberate untruth" and as "the position in which something rests". (40 words)

Example sentences (17)

What should be made crystal clear to the doubters and the speculators and the untruth-tellers is that in no way was the naira swap “engineered” to keep the President in office beyond May 29. Nothing could be further from the truth.

With the Super Bowl at hand, behold the cheerful untruth that has been perpetrated upon (and generally with the blessing of) the chicken-consuming citizens of the United States on menus across the land: a “boneless wing” that isn’t a wing at all.

I cannot stop thinking of UntRuth Davidson checking the postal votes days before the “count” and telling people that the No vote was looking good.

That is because factual untruth requires continuous additional untruths to cover over and sustain the original one.

That is far from the truth and it is sad that this untruth has been the basis for the anger being directed at the President of the Senate.

When he explained, ‘A lie is knowing you are telling an untruth.

Lastly, checked with a source close to Jolie who confirmed the article's untruth.

In the presence of untruth, injustice, hatred and violence we cannot remain silent.

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That untruth was quickly exposed.

Yet, some environmental groups are calling for a total ban on glyphosate, and many are recycling the untruth that it’s carcinogenic.

The utterance of an untruth, even when it did not originate with you and you are unaware of its inaccuracy, is nonetheless lying and thus should be treated with the appropriate scorn.

A person who makes a communication the untruth of which is unknown to him, does not thereby render himself liable to make compensation, if he or the receiver of the communication has a rightful interest in it.

He thought that truth should be used as long as it promoted life and the will to power, and he thought untruth was better than truth if it had this life enhancement as a consequence.

It is the rise to power of the demagogue who lives on untruth; it is the spreading of fear and the destruction of faith in every level of society.

The government charged him with violating a statute on "publishing untruth" for writing that a woman was decapitated by supporters of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front party.

The statement "Being in politics is just like playing golf : you are trapped in one bad lie after another" puns on the two meanings of the word lie as "a deliberate untruth" and as "the position in which something rests".

They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, or yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them.

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Common combinations with untruth

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "untruth" in a sentence?
An example: "What should be made crystal clear to the doubters and the speculators and the untruth-tellers is that in no way was the naira swap “engineered” to keep the President in office beyond May 29. Nothing could be further from the truth." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "untruth" from authentic English texts.
What does "untruth" mean?
Untruth means: A lie or falsehood.
What are synonyms of "untruth"?
Common synonyms of "untruth" include: falsehood, falsity, statement, truth.
How many example sentences with "untruth" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "untruth", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.