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• n  a false statement

• Is a fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth? That question appears to be the basis of the White House defense, having now admitted a falsehood in .
• After all, if somebody was weaving a synthetic web of untruth, he would surely have a discernible political motive.
• That's an awful untruth and a false hope, whatever the merits of the plan.

• falsehood
• falsity

• truth

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• Senate candidates trade accusations
  HOUSTON — The politics of the personal trumped differences over policy in Monday's debate between U.S. Senate candidates Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz, who accused each other of lying about their respective records and waging a media war marked by untruth and insult. Sponsored by the King Street Patriots, a Houston-based tea party organization, the hourlong ...
  Sept. 15, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News