| Main Entry: |
falsified
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrated to be false |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, pseudepigraphic, pseudological |
| Main Entry: | colored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distorted |
| Synonyms: | angled, biased, false, falsified, jaundiced, misrepresented, one-sided, partial, partisan, perverted, prejudiced, prepossessed, tampered with, tendentious, warped |
| Antonyms: | genuine, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adulterated, rotten |
| Synonyms: | altered, contaminated, decayed, defiled, distorted, doctored, falsified, foul, infected, noxious, polluted, putrescent, putrid, tainted |
| Antonyms: | clean, pure, purified, sound, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bluffing, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, dissimulated, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, impostrous, imposturous, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, purported, put-on, quack, sham*, shammed, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
| Main Entry: | trumped up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made up |
| Synonyms: | bogus, concocted, cooked up, cooked-up, deceitful, devised, dishonest, fabricated, fake, false, falsified, fictitious, fishy, framed, fraudulent, imaginary, incorrect, invalid, invented, lying, made up, misleading, phony, sham, unfounded, unsound, untrue |
| Main Entry: | doctored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adulterated |
| Synonyms: | alloyed, altered, contaminated, falsified, impure, loaded, tampered |
| Main Entry: | adulterate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter or debase, often for profit |
| Synonyms: | alloy, amalgamate, attenuate, blend, cheapen, commingle, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut*, defile, degrade, denature, depreciate, deteriorate, devalue, dilute, dissolve, doctor up, doctor*, falsify, impair, infiltrate, intermix, irrigate, lace, make impure, mingle, mix, phony up, plant*, pollute, shave, spike*, taint, thin, transfuse, vitiate, water down, weaken |
| Antonyms: | clarify, clean, cleanse, distill, filter, free, purify, refine |
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, give the lie to, gloss over, hide, miscolor, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, trump up, twist, warp |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
| Synonyms: | angle*, belie, cook up, disguise, doctor*, embroider, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, gloss over, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Antonyms: | be truthful, represent |