untruth

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.

• enPR: ŭn-trōōth′, IPA^(key): /ʌnˈtɹuːθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

untruth (countable and uncountable, plural untruths)

1. 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.

2. The condition of being false; truthlessness.

• See Thesaurus:falsehood