mistruth
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mis- + truth. Cognate with Middle High German missetriuwede.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mistruth (countable and uncountable, plural mistruths)
- Untruth; falsehood.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 81:
- 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.
- 2017 December 12, Amy B Wang, “Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’”, in The Washington Post[1]:
- “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”
- A statement which, while technically true, is dishonestly misleading. (Can we add an example for this sense?)