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[dis-in-fer-mey-shuhn, dis-in-] 
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deception
[dih-sep-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | propaganda |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information that is designed to mislead or persuade |
| Synonyms: | advertising, agitprop, announcement, brainwashing, disinformation, doctrine, evangelism, handout, hogwash, hype*, implantation, inculcation, indoctrination, newspeak, promotion, promulgation, proselytism, publication, publicity |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inveracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, canard, cock-and-bull story, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, story, subterfuge, tale, tall story, untruth, vilification, white lie, whopper |
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