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| Main Entry: |
misrepresent/misquote
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie, distort |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, angle, beard, belie, build up, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, give snow job, mangle, mask, miscolor, misinterpret, misreport, misstate, overdraw, overstate, palter, pervert, phony up, pirate*, prevaricate, promote, puff, skew, slant, snow*, spread it on, stretch, take out of context, throw a curve, trump up, twist, warp |
| Antonyms: | be forthright, be honest, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perjure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give false testimony |
| Synonyms: | bear false witness, commit perjury, deceive, delude, equivocate, falsify, forswear, lie, lie under oath, mislead, prevaricate, swear falsely, trick |
| Antonyms: | attest, certify, prove |
| Main Entry: | pervert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist, turn away from what is acceptable or correct |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulterate, alloy, animalize, brainwash, color, corrupt, cut*, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, desecrate, distort, divert, doctor, doctor up, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, mistreat, misuse, outrage, phony up, prostitute, ruin, salt, seduce, spike, vitiate, warp, water* |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, straighten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prevaricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive; stretch the truth |
| Synonyms: | beat around the bush, beg the question, belie, cavil, con, distort, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, garble, hedge, invent, jive, lie*, misrepresent, misspeak, palter, phony up, put on*, quibble, shift, shuffle, tergiversate |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange for certain outcome |
| Synonyms: | doctor, engineer, fake, falsify, fiddle with, fix, gerrymander, juggle, manipulate, tamper with, trump up |
| Notes: | a ship's rig is the arrangement of masts, sails, etc.; the rigging is the system of ropes or chains supporting these |
| Main Entry: | skew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort |
| Synonyms: | alter, bend, bias, change, color, contort, curve, doctor*, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, misshape, slant, throw off balance, twist, warp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | alter, belie, change, color, contort, distort, falsify, garble, misquote, misstate, pervert, warp |
| Antonyms: | explain, explicate |
| Main Entry: | wangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | finagle |
| Synonyms: | contrive, engineer, extricate, fake, falsify, juggle, maneuver, manipulate, obtain, wiggle, worm, wriggle |
| Notes: | to wangle means to gain by trickery; to wrangle means to argue or debate something angrily |
| Main Entry: | palter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | babble, bargain, deceive, equivocate, falsify, fib, haggle, prevaricate, quibble |
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