Falsehood - Crossword Clue, Answer and Explanation

'falsehood' is the definition.
(fib is a kind of falsehood)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for fib that I've seen before include "Small lie" , "Petty falsehood" , "A harmless white lie" , "Story" , "Little white lie" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, the USA Today, The Star Tribune, the Penny Press, The Daily Mail, The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the LA Times, The Irish Times, the King Feature Syndicate, The Mirror, the Evening Standard, The Independent and The Telegraph.

'falsehood' is the definition.
(I know that falsehood can be written as untruth)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for untruth that I've seen before include "story" , "Fib" , "A genuinely deniable" , "Falsehood or lie" , "product of Orwell's ministry?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Mirror and The Independent.

'falsehood' is the definition.
(I know that fiction is a type of falsehood)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for fiction that I've seen before include "Piece of writing from the imagination" , "It isn''t true" , "Fabricated story" , "Non-factual story" , "Literary form" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Mirror and The Independent.

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