departure from the truth

Thus, had John's single departure from the truth brought instant punishment.

'So now you see how it was,' said Bobby, accepting Frankie's one discreet departure from the truth.

This represents another departure from the truth, in that Frank Beardsley's home, to which the blended family eventually moved, was in Carmel.

And so for ourselves, it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make, so only we make no wilful departures from the truth.

"Congenital liar" was the inflammatory phrase used in this space four years ago to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's habitual departures from the truth.

Edmund Morris, a historian whose fictionalization of parts of his biography of Ronald Reagan drew critical fire, tried to explain in an Op-Ed article Ellis's strange departure from the truth.