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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit

Meaning of "untruth" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNTRUTH

untruth  [ʌnˈtruːθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTRUTH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Untruth is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNTRUTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

untruth

Lie

A lie is a false statement to a person or group made by another person or group who knows it is not the whole truth, intentionally. Lies can be told for various reasons and with various amounts of success.

Definition of untruth in the English dictionary

The definition of untruth in the dictionary is the state or quality of being untrue. Other definition of untruth is a statement, fact, etc, that is not true.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTRUTH


Bluetooth
ˈbluːˌtuːθ
bucktooth
ˈbʌkˌtuːθ
Camborne-Redruth
ˈkæmbɔːnˈrɛdˌruːθ
couth
kuːθ
crwth
kruːθ
drouth
druːθ
Duluth
dəˈluːθ
mistruth
`mɪsˈtruːθ
ruth
ruːθ
sawtooth
ˈsɔːˌtuːθ
sleuth
sluːθ
snaggletooth
ˈsnæɡəlˌtuːθ
sooth
suːθ
strewth
struːθ
tolbooth
ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ
tollbooth
ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ
tooth
tuːθ
truth
truːθ
uncouth
ʌnˈkuːθ
youth
juːθ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTRUTH

untrim
untrod
untrodden
untroubled
untroubledly
untrue
untrueness
untruism
untruly
untruss
untrusser
untrust
untrustful
untrustiness
untrustworthily
untrustworthy
untrusty
untruthful
untruthfully
untruthfulness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTRUTH

Bournemouth
Dartmouth
down in the mouth
down-in-the-mouth
Falmouth
gospel truth
half-truth
home truth
kashruth
logical truth
moment of truth
Monmouth
mouth
New South
Plymouth
Portsmouth
south
the horse´s mouth
the south
Yarmouth

Synonyms and antonyms of untruth in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNTRUTH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «untruth» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of untruth

Translation of «untruth» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNTRUTH

Find out the translation of untruth to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of untruth from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «untruth» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

谎言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falsedad
570 millions of speakers

English

untruth
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असत्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكذب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неправда
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inverdade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mensonge
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak benar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unwahrheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

虚偽
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거짓
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Untruth
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nói lối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்மைக்குப் புறம்பான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असत्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yalan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

falsità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieprawdę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неправда
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neadevăr
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναλήθεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onwaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

osanning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

usannhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of untruth

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTRUTH»

The term «untruth» is regularly used and occupies the 99.222 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of untruth
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTRUTH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «untruth» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «untruth» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about untruth

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3 QUOTES WITH «UNTRUTH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word untruth.
1
Harold Evans
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
2
Kenneth L. Pike
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
3
Norman Tebbit
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTRUTH»

Discover the use of untruth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to untruth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom.
Robert J. Samuelson, 2001
2
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
This original collection features the complete text of the celebrated early essay “On Truth and Lie in a Nonmoral Sense” (“a keystone in Nietzsche’s thought” —Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), as well as selections from the ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, 2010
3
My experiments with untruth
Fictionalized satire on the contemporary political situation of India.
Gian Chand Jain, 2001
4
The Crowd is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass ...
This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century.
Howard Nelson Tuttle, 1996
5
The truth (and untruth) of language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and ...
By painting a picture of the different meanings of these concepts in the work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida, illuminating the differences and affinities of their respective projects, he finds an original way of showing how these three ...
Gerrit Jan van der Heiden, 2010
6
Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth
These essays by Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith address contemporary issues in teaching, curriculum and pedagogy through tensions arising from the processes of globalization and empire.
D. G. Smith, 2006
7
The Allegorical Manifold: (Beyond Truth and Untruth Through ...
" Its style is like a cross between Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Hegel. This is Mihajlo Bugarinovic's third book. He lives in Vancouver.
Mihajlo Bugarinovic, 2006
8
The Varnished Untruth
Pamela Stephenson. Progress Notes — Dr P. Connolly Patient has made a good recovery. In recounting, reliving and reassessing her life — including previous trauma, illness and past treatment — there has been a positive shift in her ...
Pamela Stephenson, 2012
9
Good Morals and Gentle Manners: For Schools and Families
A lie and an untruth. — Few persons make a distinction between a lie and an untruth. That there is a most important difference may easily be perceived. An untruth may be defined as " an assertion that is contrary to the fact," while a lie is the ...
Alexander Murdock Gow, 1873
10
Nietzsche: Life as Literature
Untruth. as. a. Condition. of. Life. Belief in absolute values, illusory as it is, seems to me a condition of life. But my friend's gifts measured themselves against values the relative character of which seemed to lie open to him, without any visible ...
Alexander Nehamas, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTRUTH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term untruth is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Gas-price comparison: A convenient untruth for Israel's gov't
Israel's energy minister and local drilling firms cite 2014 gas prices to promote their position in the debate, but those prices have plummeted 50% since then. «Haaretz, Jul 15»
2
Who Killed Spalding Gray? revels in truth, untruth and what lies …
Gray's monologues, MacIvor warns, are untruth masking as the truth. By contrast, MacIvor says of himself, “I tell stories and I say they're not true but I'm not sure ... «Ottawa Citizen, May 15»
3
Between truth and untruth: Partisanship and selective approaches to …
Elaborating on how untruth is accepted and transmitted over centuries due to a lack of critical faculty, Ibn Khaldun emphasized the part that an infected soul ... «Daily Sabah, Apr 15»
4
Students shining the spotlight on an untruth
IT IS a convenient untruth to view the actions of protesting students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Rhodes University as an attempt to drag the nation ... «BDlive, Mar 15»
5
Kenny accused of telling untruth on Fennelly recall
Micheál Martin, the Fianna Fail leader, yesterday accused Kenny of telling an “untruth” and demanded he apologise. “The taoiseach has told an untruth in ... «The Sunday Times, Mar 15»
6
The “Convenience” of Untruth
If I may state a vulgarized Leninism, I hope Hillary gets the Democratic nomination, the ideal political “two-fer” in making possible a fresh start for America. «CounterPunch, Mar 15»
7
NBC news anchor Brian Williams in storm after admitting untruth
One of America's most respected broadcasters, NBC anchorman Brian Williams, has landed in a firestor of protest after admitting on Wednesday that for years he ... «The Drum, Feb 15»
8
Pitts: Why serious people discount Fox News
It's not just that it is the chief global distributor of unfact and untruth but that it distributes unfact and untruth with a bluster, an arrogance, a gonad-grabbing ... «Appleton Post Crescent, Jan 15»
9
Rudy Giuliani: Bill de Blasio 'perpetuates untruth' that police should …
"You perpetuate this untruth, which is blocking the ability to discuss what is going on." Instead, Giuliani said, de Blasio should be talking about improving ... «SILive.com, Dec 14»
10
Boehner: Obama Guilty of 'Flagrant Untruth' Regarding Executive …
This is a flagrant untruth: “In fact, most of the questions that were posed to the president over the past several years were about the very thing that he is expected ... «The Weekly Standard, Nov 14»

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