What is "untruth"

Usage examples of "untruth".

But did his unfriendliness go so far as to prompt him to intervene with untruths?

Their assertions of the vast benefits conferred upon the human race by experiments upon living animals are made in the journals of the day, in popular magazines--in periodicals which refuse opportunity of rejoinder, and which therefore lend their influence to securing the permanency of untruth.

Hami might well have sacrificed all her Cords in battle, but she would risk none of them for the sake of an untruth.

I found there the faithful Rosa, who told me that the affair of the alibi was in every mouth, and that, as such celebrity was evidently caused by a very decided belief in the untruth of the alibi itself, I ought to fear a retaliation of the same sort on the part of Razetta, and to keep on my guard, particularly at night.

This repartee was obliging and critical at the same time, and pointed out in a delicate and witty manner the untruth of my compliment.

This untruth disgusted me, and under any other circumstances I would not have let it pass without protest, but in my actual position it struck me as rather comical.

Like you, I detest untruth when it can lead to important consequences, but I think it a mere trifle when it can do no injury to anyone.

The public itself, and not the newspapers, is the great factory of baseless rumors and untruths.

Are we doomed to wallow in distortions and untruths as the years pass, with but seventeen spells to show for it.

I told him an untruth because I had to, saying I had been very ill in Batavia, prostrated by a fever for weeks almost from the day of my arrival and therefore had no knowledge of the country worth speaking of.

But Blanquet was serious and very quiet and completely incapable of telling an untruth.

Like the weight of a million adulteries, complications, untruths, chances for betrayal.

Nor is what follows a less untruth, that 'twas an Attendant and not my self who said, if Rule knows who Afflicts her, yet she wont tell.

And-listen to this, my dearest-if I am here with you, my Gwenhwyfar, then should a child come of this, then you may swear without any untruth that this child was conceived in your marriage bed, and none of us need ever know for certain-dear love, will you not consent to this?

The excuse was not entirely an untruth, but my real reason was that the original maps were precious to me as mementos of my wanderings, some of which I had made in company with my adored Zyanya, and I simply wanted to keep them.