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Definition of Mistruth
1. a lie [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistruth
Literary usage of Mistruth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle by Ronald D. Renard (1996)
"... they have, at the same time, had to try to disentangle mistruth from misconception
and myth in much of the basic literature on narcotics use in Burma. ..."
2. Ballads and Other Poems by George Lansing Raymond (1901)
"Oft, though unconscious of the least mistruth, I feign'da fall in fancied depths
of ill, And mock'd that I might hear ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1897)
"... against the human mind to suppose that the masses of men hold beliefs tenaciously
because seduced by the error that is in them. Error and mistruth are ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1823)
"... will gain tresses, whose interest will no longer be injured by letting the
the good report of all the boarding-school masters and mistruth be known. ..."
5. Loosen the Knots and Tangles by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"This was a simple mistruth. Ambassador Goldberg, however, may have not known what
the facts were. Adlai Stevenson before him had not been fully briefed on ..."
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