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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.
A statement which, while technically true, is dishonestly misleading. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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 ===Etymology===
-From {{prefix|mis|truth|lang=en}}.
+From {{pre|en|mis|truth}}. Cognate with {{cog|gmh|missetriuwede}}.
 ===Pronunciation===
-* {{a|UK}} {{IPA|/mɪsˈtɹuːθ/|lang=en}}
+* {{IPA|en|/mɪsˈtɹuːθ/|a=UK}}
 ===Noun===
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 # [[untruth|Untruth]]; [[falsehood]].
+#* {{RQ:Mandela Long Walk to Freedom|year=2010|page=81|passage=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.}}
-#* '''1994''', Nelson Mandela, ''Long Walk to Freedom'', Abacus 2010, p. 81:
+# A statement which, while [[technically]] true, is [[dishonest]]ly [[misleading]].  {{rfex|en}}
-#*: 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.
-[[io:mistruth]]