How to Use untruth in a Sentence

untruth

noun
  • The benefits of all doubts are lost once a man tells so many untruths.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
  • Trump is just straight-up doling out untruths – and blaming Biden.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Lies, untruths, and distortions of truth plague its workings.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • But what’s also swirling are truths, half truths, and untruths about the coronavirus crisis.
    — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The bomb threat suggests that untruths about migration may feed threats of violence for some time.
    — Odette Yousef, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Lately, the president has been piling on the untruths even more than usual.
    — Marissa G. Muller, Teen Vogue, 3 Aug. 2018
  • But detectives hunting for a killer saw the untruths as an effort to cover up his role in the slaying.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • At times, there is a benign explanation for children telling untruths.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The verb lie, lie, lied, which means to tell an untruth, is an intransitive verb not requiring an object.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But Bloomberg wasn't the only commencement speaker to speak of a culture of untruths this week.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2018
  • With Dima, the line between the concepts of truth and untruth was always shifting.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • And Sessions has sat through enough hearings to know his answers will come back to bite him if there is even an element of untruth.
    — Jen Psaki, CNN, 12 June 2017
  • His backers spent three hours excusing their hero of each contradiction or untruth alleged by his foes.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Astounding for all the distortions, untruths and outright lies.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the 1940 Pinocchio does have a mischievous streak, along with his famed penchant for untruth.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Social media appears to be just as effective in spreading untruths and even ethnic barbs in Ethiopia.
    — James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
  • Some untruths floated in the wake of his departing UM not under the best of circumstances.
    — miamiherald, 6 Dec. 2012
  • This has been fraught with an unbelievable amount of misinformation and untruths.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Better behaviour by the giants, from Facebook to Fox, could limit the spread of untruths.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • There are allegations and there have been through many elections that there is deception, untruth and mistruth in the election results.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Maybe Ex has disseminated some untruths about the relationship; your friends will stand by you and who cares about the others.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And both, this past week, were accused of the same transgression – a failure to tell the truth, and telling further untruths when investigators pressed them.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
  • The heads of the intelligence service have a long tradition of misspeaking or telling untruths that advance their agenda.
    — Ryan Singel, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2012
  • But in the popular imagination, untruths persist that should be corrected.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
  • Another surprising element in the story is that dairnes have a unique power — the ability to detect untruth.
    — Laurel Snyder, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Badawi, having traveled to more than 34 African countries, dismantles many untruths in this prolific book.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Avoiding that happening starts with recognizing that there are reasons why some people tell untruths, just as there are reasons why some people are brave enough to find out — and tell — the truth.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The songs feature an unapologetic melancholy and sincerity that works even with the extra layer of untruth beneath the surface.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Trump and his acolytes use these attacks on the Fourth Estate to neutralize their own untruths, evasions and exaggerations.
    — Howard Kurtz, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
  • An important component of this is the role of social media, that spreads throughout a certain segment of society, and leads people to accept these untruths.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024

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