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Another word for untruth

untruth Synonyms

untruth

n.

falsehood, misrepresentation, evasion, lie, prevarication, distortion, deceit, canard, trick, pretense, false appearance, gull, cheat, mistake, dissimulation, spoof*, whopper*.

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Another word for untruth

noun

An untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie², misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale. (Informal) fish story, tall tale. (Slang) whopper. See true
An erroneous or false idea:
erroneousness, error, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity. See correct, true

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It is your happiness I wish for, she added, feeling that she was telling an untruth and was becoming entangled.
For, if we told you truly, you might escape us altogether; and if we told you an untruth we would be naughty and deserve to be punished.

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