Lying can be by
telling a direct untruth
or by not telling the complete truth.
The attempt by mrs cave to suggest that it must be a mistake was in our view a
blatant untruth.
He
spake no untruth; he did desire to go to bethlehem.
Like my father, i'm not a person given to
deliberate untruths, i assure you.
However, this and ' da vinci '
peddle untruth
with the zeal of religion but without its frequent beauty of language.
For example: when was the last time you heard of a newspaper retracting
obvious untruths?
To nail a lie is to
expose an untruth, but why " nail " ?
And
such untruths
go to the very heart of relationships where trust is so important.
Surely nobody would dare to
write untruths
in the holy language!
We say it expresses a
clear untruth
that can be demonstrated as such.
Such a view must, however,
include no demonstrable untruth.
All the others are conning people in my opinion with the most
outrageous untruths.
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