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mistruth

  • /mɪsˈtɹuːθ/ UK

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

noun mistruths

  1. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable A statement which, while technically true, is dishonestly misleading.

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"mistruth." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mistruth.

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@misc{mistruth_2026,
  title = {mistruth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mistruth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}