Definitions for untruth

untruth un·truth

Spelling: [uhn-trooth]
IPA: /ʌnˈtruθ/

Untruth is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in untruth (hnrttuu).

Definitions for untruth

noun

  1. the state or character of being untrue.
  2. want of veracity; divergence from truth.
  3. something untrue; a falsehood or lie. Synonyms: fiction, story, tale, fabrication, invention.
  4. Archaic. unfaithfulness; disloyalty.

Origin of untruth

before 900; Middle English; Old English untrēowth. See un-1, truth

Examples for untruth

His kind is too arrogant, too self-confident to have recourse to untruth.

I do not suppose, my dear, that you intentionally told an untruth; it was an exaggeration.

"Y—es," he hesitatingly said, for an untruth he would not tell.

But if any one says that this is not my teaching, he is speaking an untruth.

First you must have a flogging for having told an untruth, then we will see to the rest.

I feared for an instant that you would tell me an untruth, and that would have hurt me.

He regretted that, being as he was convinced of its untruth.

And then the very fact of celebrity bankrolls its own momentum, creates its own truth out of a card house of untruth.

He was going nuts with frustration in the face of what he considered to be phoniness and untruth.

But then people started defending--or minimizing to the point of untruth--the clearly indefensible.

Word Value for untruth
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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