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mistruth

noun
/mɪsˈtɹuːθ/UK

Etymology

From mis- + truth. Cognate with Middle High German missetriuwede.

  1. derived from missetriuwede

Definitions

  1. Untruth

    Untruth; falsehood.

    • In my brief stay in Johannesburg, I had left a trail of mistruths and, in each case, the falsehood had come back to haunt me.

  2. A statement which, while technically true, is dishonestly misleading.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for mistruth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA