Untruth
21untruth — a. 1. Falsehood, treachery, want of fidelity. 2. Falsehood, lie, fiction, fabrication, story, forgery, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation …
22untruth — noun (C) formal a word meaning a lie, used because you want to avoid saying this directly …
23untruth — n 1. untruthfulness, inveracity, falsity, lying, mendacity, truthlessness; erroneousness, fallaciousness, untrueness, misrepresentation; prevarication, perjury, dissimulation; sophistry, casuistry, Jesuitism, subtlety, subreption; deceitfulness,… …
24untruth — un·truth …
25untruth — [ʌnˈtruːθ] noun [C] formal a lie …
26untruth — un•truth [[t]ʌnˈtruθ[/t]] n. pl. truths ( trootz′, trooths′). 1) the state or character of being untrue 2) want of veracity; divergence from truth 3) a falsehood or lie 4) archaic disloyalty • Etymology: bef. 900 …
27untruth — /ʌnˈtruθ/ (say un troohth) noun 1. the state or character of being untrue. 2. want of veracity; divergence from truth. 3. something untrue; a falsehood or lie. 4. Obsolete unfaithfulness or disloyalty …
28intentional untruth — index lie, story (falsehood) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
29state an untruth — index misrepresent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
30tell an untruth — index lie (falsify), misguide, mislead, misstate, prevaricate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …