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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation |
| Synonyms: | coloring, cover, disguise, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, front, hypocrisy, lie, mask, misstatement, pretense, semblance |
| Main Entry: | falseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | erroneousness, error, falsehood, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Notes: | a falsehood is a false statement, a lie, or untruth; falseness is the state of being false or untrue |
| Main Entry: | hyperbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog |
| Main Entry: | indirection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | shadiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shiftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneakiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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