Untruth

Examples

• Meyler's greatest enemy never accused him yet of uttering an untruth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was as if she had forced herself to one untruth, and had been stunned out of all power of varying it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The greatest unconsciousness of the greatest untruth, e. Plato. The Republic.
• It did not hurt him half as much to tell May an untruth as to see her trying to pretend that she had not detected him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But Blanquet was serious and very quiet and completely incapable of telling an untruth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Sir, there is,' returned the old man with quiet emphasis, 'too much untruth among all denominations of men. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the perspective of history, no one feels that he has said the last word about a philosophy like Rousseau's after demonstrating its untruth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Alas, my character is ruined, and I am a branded speaker of untruths! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There, you see that at any rate I do not attempt untruths. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Can you maintain that I sit and tell untruths, when all I wish to do is to save you from sorrow? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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