The word "untruth" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to refer to something that is not true or not based in reality. Example Sentence: The politician was found guilty of giving false information, or untruths, to the public.
I wasn't planning on doing it, I swear.But there it was, an oily untruth slithering down the line.
That's a lie, it's an untruth that was peddled against me when I was leader of the council and it is being peddled against me now that I'm the mayor.
And as election season heats up and the fibs start flying thick and fast, they hope to be in the vanguard of keeping reality in check.In this section The last best hope Finally, some good news Have firearm, can travel Reflected glory Fun at the FactFest Behind the Zion curtain Help on the way Terrible swift sword ReprintsThe trouble is, so is untruth.
SIR —While calling on black Americans to focus less on their race, Lexington (February 3 , 2007 ironically helps to perpetuate the fundamental untruth of race in America: that it is a black and white issue.
That untruth worked too: at a polling station near O'Connell Street in Dublin, a young man said he had voted No "because they're sending the kids to war and all that".To be fair, one striking difference between the first and second Irish referendums was the level of knowledge displayed by Irish voters about the treaty.
"So this is another untruth spread by you, Mr Lazarevic," says Mr Milosevic.
He accuses entrenched interests of working for years to spread a "great untruth": that government intervention is either harmful or a plot to grab tax dollars from the squeezed middle and shower them on the undeserving poor.
Re-stating an untruth only helps to perpetuate the wrong notion about worker exploitation.Alan DeverVice-presidentCanada Line Rapid TransitVancouverReligious meetingsSIR – It is true that the annual coming together in India and Pakistan of Tablighi Jamaat, a global network of Muslim preachers, attracts "hundreds of thousands" ("The battle of the books", December 22nd).
(c) A machine that uses X-rays to check for heart disease.19 Disraeli famously claimed that there were three kinds of untruth: lies, damned lies and statistics.
When the 70th anniversary arrives in December of what others call the "rape of Nanking", we shall see what official stance the government takes on the matter.Omission, rather than direct historical untruth, is the museum's main characteristic.
Its performance is said sometimes to ensure a good harvest, other times to purify the participants; a man who is accused of a crime or of uttering an untruth may be asked to undergo the ordeal of fire to prove his innocence, and if he emerges unscathed his innocence is proved.
