Sentence examples for but a lie from inspiring English sources

Actually, not a dream but a lie.

Lovely, but a lie of Trumpian proportions.

A white lie, but a lie all the same.

But a lie told with unwavering conviction – and ineptly answered – is a lie that sticks.

This, I think, is a falsehood: a consolatory lie, but a lie nevertheless.

It is absolutely clear to me this is nothing but a lie".

Park Dae-sung, the offending blogger, is not an economist by training but a lay commentator.

It was "a beautiful story" but also "a lie", Krakauer asserts.

Hence the use of (2a) while disbelieving (2c) would be misleading, but not a lie.

Hence their utterance is misleading but not a lie if they know that Ravel was French.

"But that's a lie".