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Recent Examples of untruth 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 invention soon collapses under the burden of its own untruth, wasting time in which the victims of its fiction could have taken more effective action to protect themselves. David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 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
  • For an in-depth look at AI psychosis and especially the co-creation of delusions via human-AI collaboration, see my recent analysis at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • If someone is already at risk of paranoia or delusions, AI may validate their thoughts in a way that intensifies their beliefs.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.
    Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Harrison called that a lie, saying Welsh knew of university professors teaching LGBTQ+ content long before Monday.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advances in deception and seeking technologies will further shape this contest, as each side works to reduce the effectiveness of the other’s systems.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Minnesota’s Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson condemned the deception and affirmed how troubling the ambush was.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Cortège Out on the cricket fields at The Los Angeles Equestrian Center, an experiential open-air event is bringing together dance, sound, light, puppetry, costume, myth, and robotic canines.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The myth of Chinese tunnels has circulated for more than a century.
    Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Arias weaves a lovely tale of unrequited love that isn’t as unrequited in this sapphic, slow-burn romance that also touches on weighty topics, including divorce and grief.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The tell-tale signs continued to add up.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 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
  • Of course, such high-tech innovations, providing the illusion of a social environment, have both pluses and minuses.
    Alan Lightman September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Shatter your illusions of love?
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As a recent ProPublica story revealed, the promises of the H-2A visa program can be undermined by extreme abuses the workers suffer, mostly by labor contractors.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The dream drive package includes private transfer to The Barn, Napa Valley Car Club's exclusive clubhouse, post-drive drinks and stories and return transfer.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Untruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untruth. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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