Sentence examples for deliberate untruth from inspiring English sources

Rebuttal is also another opportunity to refurbish a deliberate untruth: which is why, so far, BBC sifting of facts from fibs has been rather spotty and feeble.

Last month when Osborne claimed that Gordon Brown blocked the Tories from inspecting the combined online information system database, which details public expenditure in 12,000 key areas, Mandelson launched into him, accusing him of telling a "deliberate untruth" since decisions on access to the database are made by the head of the civil service.

In fact, like most conspiracy theorising, O'Sullivan's film relies on the assumption that every apparent inconsistency points to a deliberate untruth; but the version he leans towards, involving Manchurian Candidate-style brainwashing and the conjecture that watch-company executives may have led double-lives as CIA agents, strains credulity beyond repair.

Indeed, "why", he asks, "should a regulator's remit be limited to reckless or deliberate untruths about individuals or corporations"?

JODL: I know that the Armed Forces communiqué of 18 May 1940 contained the sentence, "Louvain captured after heavy fighting". Even though the German Armed Forces communiqué was silent on some things, it certainly never stated deliberate untruths.

He said Westwood had told "deliberate untruths" about his mother.

His small business is a political consulting firm whose website describes Patrascu and his two partners as "heavily engaged political operatives" and one of his business partners even claims that he is a "political and social media hired gun". Patrascu's big-city political dirty tricks and deliberate untruths might work in Sacramento, but they don't play well in Laguna Beach.

Mr. Justice Clark put it quite bluntly: 'the most repulsive speech enjoys immunity provided it falls short of a deliberate or reckless untruth.' 383 U.S., at 63, 86 S.Ct., at 663.

Therefore we abhor deliberate or reckless untruth in this study as much as in any other; and therefore we feel that a grave wrong is committed by all who, holding a position that entitles them to respect, yet condone and encourage such untruth.

Make the deliberate decision to believe the truth you find and refuse the untruth.

She's happy to indulge Tom's masochistic sexual conceit that she's cuckolding him with Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer, "a deliberate and shared fantasy... usefully diluting my own necessary untruths".