UNTRUTHS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

untruths

noun

plural of untruth

as in myths

a false idea or belief their argument rests on a fundamental untruth which has long been discredited

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as in lies

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive the Web site is rife with untruths and misleading information

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Recent Examples of untruths Cassidy warns against 'feeding into untruths' Cassidy later asked Saphier whether a parent should vaccinate their child with the MMR. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2026 And there are lies, so many untruths that one doesn’t know who to root for. — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026 Skills such as digital literacy and being aware of AI’s biases and untruths are on one side of the coin. — Al Kingsley Mbe, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 But in the popular imagination, untruths persist that should be corrected. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 3 June 2026 Beyond easily demonstrable untruths about Ukraine, what’s unfortunate about Slezkine’s historical analysis is its failure to ponder cause and effect, even at a superficial level. — John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025 Trump is just straight-up doling out untruths – and blaming Biden. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for untruths

Noun

Also intertwined are ancient myths of warring city-states, the raw, moody poetry of John Keats, and the modern battle between a faithless husband and his wife, the poem’s raging speaker.

— Merve Emre, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
But Brigid also appears throughout the early Irish myths as a member of the aes sidhe.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of myths

Noun

If Crystal and Ellis had stayed on that tack — tales about the house at 860 bound together by a sense of its loss — 860 might have the sturdiness of a tearjerker.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
On the surface, his new album Antione’s Son is the same old same old—airy melodies, drug talk, vomiting ad-libs—but punched up by suburban ennui and in-the-weeds romantic tales that makes the music feel refreshingly personal.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of tales

Noun

Verizon’s 2026 healthcare breach snapshot identifies vulnerability exploitation, phishing and credential abuse among initial access routes, alongside persistent staff errors and misconfigurations.

— Aliasgar Dohadwala, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Potential industrial applications This was then used to tell the robot’s limbs what moves to make, all the while monitoring the cube’s state to check and correct for errors.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of errors

Noun

In the 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia, this writer did a number of stories following forecasts by Thomas Miller, a prominent data scientist who’s a professor at Northwestern University.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Yet neither of these stories fits the timing or scale of the decline.

— J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of stories

Noun

Every Saturday morning, about 190 starry-eyed students ages 10 to 18 attend classes in everything from puppetry, mime and clowning to juggling, card tricks, illusions, mentalism, stage magic, theater production and escapology.

— Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
Pokémon cards, a pricey Ferrari shirt and a touristy museum of illusions.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026