unfact

[ uhn-fakt ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a fabrication that is disseminated as fact.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfact¹

First recorded in 1885–90; un- ¹ + fact

Example Sentences

It’s not just that it is the chief global distributor of unfact and untruth but that it distributes unfact and untruth with a bluster, an arrogance, a gonad-grabbing swagger, that implicitly and intentionally dares you to believe fact and truth matter.

From Seattle Times

And why were all these poor wretches suffering the extremity of horror, but because they would not believe in miraculous images, and bones of dead friars, and the rest of that science of unreason and unfact, against which Vesalius had been fighting all his life, consciously or not, by using reason and observing fact? 

From Project Gutenberg

This is the usual half-truth and whole unfact.

From Project Gutenberg

But the unfact is stated for a purpose: here the Reviewer mounts the high horse and poses as the Magister Morum per excellentiam.

From Project Gutenberg

This is another lieu commun amongst Moslems; and its unfact requires only statement.

From Project Gutenberg