Definition of “untruth”

At this stage I offered up a short prayer for forgiveness for a decided untruth.

Frankie had given it to him straight, Frankie hadn't told him an untruth.

He added: `Once she launched an untruth she found it hard to retract.

Hence any untruth which is not an election advertisement is not covered.

I am starting to see the untruth in that, and that my task is to have faith in her will to live, despite evidence to the contrary.

In my view, this level of'spin ' is dangerously close to an untruth.

It would not be such a big untruth ; all merchants exaggerate the worth of their wares.

They accepted responsibility for reporter Andrew Gilligan's radio story that suggested the government went to war on an untruth.

Truth had to be constantly affirmed; the smallest untruth , if allowed to take root, grew until it overshadowed the whole garden.