Untruth Sentence Examples

Lying can be by telling a direct untruth or by not telling the complete truth.

I never knew him to tell an untruth.

He spake no untruth; he did desire to go to Bethlehem.

To nail a lie is to expose an untruth, but why " nail "?

The attempt by Mrs Cave to suggest that it must be a mistake was in our view a blatant untruth.

We say it expresses a clear untruth that can be demonstrated as such.

He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.

Such a view must, however, include no demonstrable untruth.

It is your happiness I wish for, she added, feeling that she was telling an untruth and was becoming entangled.

For, if we told you truly, you might escape us altogether; and if we told you an untruth we would be naughty and deserve to be punished.