untruth

Converse of object

• tell: Lying can be by telling a direct untruth or by not telling the complete truth.
• speak: He spake no untruth; he did desire to go to Bethlehem.
• peddle: However, this and ' Da Vinci ' peddle untruth with the zeal of religion but without its frequent beauty of language.
• expose: To nail a lie is to expose an untruth, but why " nail " ?
• write: Surely nobody would dare to write untruths in the Holy Language!
• include: Such a view must, however, include no demonstrable untruth.

Adjective modifier

• blatant: The attempt by Mrs Cave to suggest that it must be a mistake was in our view a blatant untruth.
• deliberate: Like my father, I'm not a person given to deliberate untruths, I assure you.
• obvious: For example: when was the last time you heard of a newspaper retracting obvious untruths?
• such: And such untruths go to the very heart of relationships where trust is so important.
• clear: We say it expresses a clear untruth that can be demonstrated as such.
• outrageous: All the others are conning people in my opinion with the most outrageous untruths.