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Untruth definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNTRUTH, n.
1. Contrariety to truth; falsehood.
2. Want of veracity.
3. Treachery; want of fidelity. Obs.
4. False assertion.
No untruth can possibly avail the patron and defender long.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth] [ant: true statement, truth]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: before 12th century 1. archaic disloyalty 2. lack of truthfulness ; falsity 3. something that is untrue ; falsehood

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Untruth Un*truth", n. 1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. --Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. --Shak. Syn: Lie; falsehood. See Lie.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(untruths) 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. = falsehood N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Falsehood, treachery, want of fidelity. 2. Falsehood, lie, fiction, fabrication, story, forgery, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation.

Moby Thesaurus

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