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But then people started defending--or minimizing to the point of untruth--the clearly indefensible.

Her words were not simply empty sentiment, or yet another playful untruth.

He was going nuts with frustration in the face of what he considered to be phoniness and untruth.

And then the very fact of celebrity bankrolls its own momentum, creates its own truth out of a card house of untruth.

By remaining silent about this, it became a convenient untruth!

Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.

On the other hand it seems to be thought that there are people who are specially fitted to be the victims of untruth.

An untruth is passed over carelessly and the child allowed to cover up its sins without realizing their sinfulness.

And little better in results than telling an untruth is putting the child off till some future time.

You may say so without any risk of telling an untruth; for, on the word of a hunter, I never had such a tough job.