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
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