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Recent Examples of untruth This does not necessarily mean untruths or factual errors. Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 At the celebration that follows their hair-raising return to Holy Island, Spike is disturbed by his father’s exultant untruths, regaling the crowd with false accounts of his son’s heroics when the squeamish boy had been too petrified to be of use during the attack. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025 The writer’s task is the sculpting of these untruths into a work of art, into a cohesive story that suspends the readers’ belief, gently ushers them into the imaginary and holds them there. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025 The basic essentials of your life – electricity, food and water – must be in place to afford the privilege of propagating or believing untruths. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untruth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untruth
Noun
  • Users who spend hours talking to the bot report being led to various delusions.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For a second-year Housewife, she’s committed to the performance art of delusion.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although the city demolished the long-vacant behemoth from its modest skyline about nine months ago, its remains lie entombed where the building once stood, and temporarily block the beginning of a new chapter of Marysville history.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When compared to other Mercury transits, this is the one that exposes lies, fuels investigative journalism and makes gossip feel more like a confession.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The unscripted show will feature a group of contestants who undergo physical and mental challenges, collecting clues before they are launched into a real-life game of detective work and deception.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The series will feature a group of contestants facing physical and mental challenges to collect clues before stepping into a real-life game of deduction and deception.
    Peter White, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The real loss, at the altar of a warped vision of masculinity, is courage and skill, sacrificed so that a few good men can go on measuring themselves against their own hollow myth of toughness.
    Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • And, in the process, the trio of ’70s babies punctured the myth that rap is a young man’s sport.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will forever tell tales of his audacious 60 off just 65 balls.
    Sam Dalling, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Wyler’s Oscar-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – a timely tale of the weight of coming home from World War II – was named as subversive by HUAC.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Inter basin transfers created the illusion of abundance.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In the 21st century, the moral entrepreneurs include media personalities and social influencers as well as the nonhuman bots and algorithms whose authority is derived by constructing the illusion of broad consensus.
    Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The series’ first season, chronicling the crimes of Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, prompted a conversation about the exploitation of Black and disabled people’s stories for entertainment, while the season following the Menendez Brothers led to a real-world reconsidering of their guilt.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025

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“Untruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untruth. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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