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
• Still, the 1940 Pinocchio does have a mischievous streak, along with his famed penchant for untruth.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2022
• But the other truths and untruths lie somewhere in between.
  — Philip H. Devoe, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
• 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
• But what’s also swirling are truths, half truths, and untruths about the coronavirus crisis.
  — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Some untruths floated in the wake of his departing UM not under the best of circumstances.
  — miamiherald, 6 Dec. 2012
• What followed was a great quiet, a hundred years of agreed-upon untruth.
  — Longreads, 26 Oct. 2017
• Lately, the president has been piling on the untruths even more than usual.
  — Marissa G. Muller, Teen Vogue, 3 Aug. 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
• Better behaviour by the giants, from Facebook to Fox, could limit the spread of untruths.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Lies, untruths, and distortions of truth plague its workings.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• Another notable untruth: that all of the songs on the album were recorded at Woodstock.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• But the work has a much more general resonance, as well: The untruths are omnipresent, and their ubiquity can give the sensation that there’s no escape.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
• Yet on the outskirts of Kendall’s storm of untruths, there are Shiv and Tom at least temporarily finding their way back to each other by finally being frank.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
• Astounding for all the distortions, untruths and outright lies.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
• 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
• At times, there is a benign explanation for children telling untruths.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• 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
• His backers spent three hours excusing their hero of each contradiction or untruth alleged by his foes.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, his untruths about both calling the soldiers and, based on Kelly’s account, the content of his call have managed to somehow even further degrade his honesty.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
• Except for one thing: The fear and paranoia created by the steady drumbeat of untruths and intrigues that marks Washington politics never goes away.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• But a President faces challenges — including having to do the job of addressing untruths without journalists’ help — and Biden did not rise to this one.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 28 June 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
• Michelle Wolf, summoned to roast the Trump administration, was run out of town for noting that its chief spokesperson routinely trafficked in untruths.
  — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• 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
• At the center of it all is Musk, whose turn to hard-right ideology has led him to spout and amplify untruths with abandon, algorithmically forcing them onto an audience of millions.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024