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as in delusion
a false idea or belief
their argument rests on a fundamental untruth which has long been discredited
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as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
the Web site is rife with untruths and misleading information
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as in deception
the quality or state of being false
there is an element of untruth in all forms of art: works of art provide only a semblance of reality
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Recent Examples of untruth
This does not necessarily mean untruths or factual errors.
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Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 30 June 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
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 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
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And a special shout-out goes to SNL’s Vanessa Bayer as the hilarious medium with impeccable timing and detailed delusion.—
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Marroquin, who had been jailed on assault and battery charges, struggled with mental illness and persistent delusions that someone was going to hurt his mother.—
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The source of this tale is a man named Barry (Alpha Oumar Sow), who coaches refugees like Souleymane to lie in their interviews for sympathetic and dramatic effect, and even supplies them with false documents that might corroborate those lies.—
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And, sitting here a quarter of the way through the 21st century, that image is a lie.—
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And how could Faas have knowingly perpetrated such deception?—
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This campaign of deception from Big Oil and the plastics industry underscores why California’s lawsuit against Exxon is so vital.—
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The idea that late night shows were once apolitical is a myth.—
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Could these events be a local myth beginning to come to life, or a curse?—
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The Coldplay public humiliation is a cautionary tale of atrophied American privacy.—
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That tale is just one of many in the story that don’t show Joel in an especially flattering light.—
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Like the film that inspired it, the book circles intimacy, illusion, blondes and brunettes, the psychic architecture of Los Angeles.—
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Choose temporary discomfort over living in illusion.—
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Little Dream's cake also featured some butterfly detailing, as seen on Khloé's story.—
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His story hit just as Pastel QAnon — a softer, Instagram-friendly offshoot of the movement — was flourishing.—
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One 2025 study indicated that facial recognition tools had higher error rates for adults with Down syndrome.—
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The error range for this method is 3% to 4%.4 Bio-electrical Impedance: a measurement method using the speed of a low-level electrical current to determine a person's body composition.—
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“Untruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untruth. Accessed 12 Aug. 2025.
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