untruth - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Inherited from Middle English untreuth, from Old English untrēowþ and unġetrēowþ, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwiþu and *ungatriuwiþu, equivalent to un- + truth. Cognate with Old High German ungitriuwida.
untruth (countable and uncountable, plural untruths)
- A lie or falsehood.
2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7:
He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
- The condition of being false; truthlessness.
lie or falsehood
- Bulgarian: лъжа (bg) f (lǎža), неистина (bg) f (neistina)
- Czech: nepravda (cs) f
- Danish: usandhed (da) c
- French: mensonge (fr) m, menterie (fr) f, contrevérité (fr) f
- German: Unwahrheit (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ψεῦδος n (pseûdos)
- Irish: ainfhírinne f, ainbhfíor m
- Italian: bugia (it) f, falsità (it) f
- Kikuyu: iheeni class 5
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: usannhet m or f
- Plautdietsch: Lieej f, Onwoarheit f
- Portuguese: inverdade (pt) f
- Russian: непра́вда (ru) f (neprávda)
- Sanskrit: मिथ्या (sa) (mithyā), असत्य (sa) n (asatya)
- Serbo-Croatian: neistina (sh) f, netačnost f
- Swedish: osanning (sv) c
- Telugu: అసత్యము (te) (asatyamu)
- Tocharian B: waike
- Welsh: anwiredd (cy)
the condition of being false
- Bulgarian: погрешност f (pogrešnost)