The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prevention of Literature] Reference

We believe in the sanctity of truth, but untruth is not unethical in Marxist philosophies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Formidable Reality of Khrushchev's Russia] Reference

This untruth is promoted by figures on TV and the radio who should or, more likely, do know better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate] Reference

One would normally think so, but what of the case where an untruth is valued more highly by someone than the truth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions and Truth : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Byers didn't "lie", he told an "untruth" - don't get yourself sued Louisa!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byers Sorry For Untruth] Reference

It is the eternal issue between the moral realities, truth and untruth, that is at stake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essentials of Spirituality] Reference

"I knew her obvious qualities, which there is no need to specify: but the depth of her untruth is a new fact to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deerbrook] Reference

McCain speaks an "untruth" about never making eye contact with his debate opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

I'm sure Weisman knows the difference between Obama's level of "untruth" and Palin's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Alterman: The L-word Taboo] Reference

And you begged your question by automatically making evolution the "untruth" in your statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin] Reference

In his eyes no kind of untruth, however specious, could be a virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

I'm sure Weissman knows the difference between Obama's level of "untruth" and Palin's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suburban Guerrilla] Reference

In a sweeping statement he rejected the UNP leaders utterances as "untruth" and "distortions" meant to mislead.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to S Africa hospitals get army help] Reference

Then the Obama birth certificate question is branded as an "untruth" despite that it hasn't really successfully been debunked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Free Press] Reference

To paint the story as "cuts caused family to lose home" is disengenuous at best, and probably fair to say as a large "untruth".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics in Ireland - Irish Politics] Reference

While telling an untruth, I was not deceiving you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Alba not have felt that she was telling her an untruth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But his lightness of spirit saves him from the untruth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

He told me an untruth about his having to go to the club.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Their mother spoke sharply, for untruth she would not tolerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

My daughter never told an untruth in her life until the other day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

What would become of us if women had not for us the pity of untruth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"We must tell her something, and we cannot tell her an untruth," replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference

I have denied it, I have told an untruth, not to irritate or grieve you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Would not the telling probably involve her in the untruth her soul loathed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

She did not understand why her cousin should have told her an untruth about the New York paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

"Are you not ashamed, sir, to charge me with untruth?" said Lucy, nearly bursting into laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

"But surely," I rejoined, "one doesn't want untruth; one wants --" but he did not let me finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

It was no longer a question of the justice or injustice, truth or untruth, of the unions 'claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

In order to keep my contract I had to deceive you, or at all events to allow you to believe an untruth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

"Yes!" gasped Janice, feeling that she was perilously near an untruth, for she was allowing 'Rill to deceive herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

But the Grand-Inquisitor succeeds in discovering this untruth, and in exciting the King's anger against his favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Antony Gray's identity to Pia, and thereby run the risk either of untruth or of breaking a promise, was purely a question of conscience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference