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  • noun Plural form of nontruth.

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Examples

  • If you would rule out incoherent ideas as nontruths, how can you accept an incoherent reality?

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • It was interesting to me that while my ex could spout all sorts of opinions and nontruths about the military, servicemembers and his opinions about their propensity for violence, and how horrible military schools are, none of my evidence was admissable.

    "I Serve FOR My Children" - SpouseBUZZ 2008

  • This whole government has been telling you half-truths and nontruths for long enough.

    CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2008 2008

  • This whole government has been telling you half-truths and nontruths for long enough.

    Crooks and Liars 2008

  • April 8th, 2010 7:51 am ET once again noone at cnn did thier homework the civil war was not about slavery until after the war started even then it was a non issue to most people involved.we have had a "black history"month for many years.when you talk about something you should be at least a little knowledgeable about the subject.you do the entire world a great disservice with your failure to reasearch,repeating myths and basic nontruths.most dissapointed in our gov for apoligizing.anyone that looks back and is offended wont get very far in life.think before you speak ,of course you wont, you have to talk and talk to fill your time slots.

    LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show 2010

  • With HRC, they actually had real ammo (no not the sexist comments - that is where the true shame is IMO, but Bosnia, 3am, other nontruths, etc.), and some not (past scandals, which are as relevant as the public wants them to be, opponent focus or not.

    Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown. 2009

  • Denial, which hits while packing for camp and culminates in a string of nontruths running through the brain while settling in at the campsite: I am not actually sleeping in a pre-fab tent in the middle of nowhere for two nights; the ladies 'room does not really consist of a cylindrical concrete hole with a fiberglass seat leading to a giant vat of communal excrement in the ground; and I am certainly not being fed just a solitary slice of ham for dinner.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2010

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