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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, disavow |
| Synonyms: | abjure, deny, disclaim, disown, drop, forgo, forsake, give up, recall, recant, reject, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, swear off, take back, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | go back to, revert |
| Main Entry: | untrue |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, cheating, counterfactual, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, dissembling, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, forsworn, hollow, imprecise, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, out of line, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, unsound, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong |
| Antonyms: | faithful, honest, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perjured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perjurious |
| Synonyms: | bearing false witness, commiting perjury, deceptive, equivocating, forsworn, lying, misleading, swearing falsely |
| Main Entry: | perjurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying under oath |
| Synonyms: | committing perjury, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, double-dealing, equivocating, false, falsifying, fibbing, forsworn, guileful, inventing, mendacious, misleading, misrepresenting, misstating, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong |
| Main Entry: | truthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not true |
| Synonyms: | counterfactual, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, dissembling, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, forsworn, hollow, imprecise, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, out of line, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, unsound, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abjure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up |
| Synonyms: | abstain from, forswear, recant, renege, renounce, retract, take back, withdraw |
| Notes: | abjure is 'swear off' or 'swear away' and adjure is 'command earnestly'; abjure implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath renounce often equals abjure but may carry the meaning of disclaim or disown and may imply a sacrifice for a greater end |
| Main Entry: | disavow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reject |
| Synonyms: | abjure, contradict, deny, disacknowledge, disallow, disclaim, disown, drop out, forswear, gainsay, go back on word, impugn, negate, negative, refuse, renege, renig, repudiate, wash hands of, weasel out of, welsh, worm out of |
| Antonyms: | agree, approve, sanction, vouch for, vow |
| Main Entry: | disclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deny |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abjure, abnegate, belittle, contradict, contravene, criticize, decline, deprecate, disacknowledge, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, discard, disown, disparage, divorce oneself from, forswear, gainsay, minimize, negate, recant, refuse, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, spurn, traverse, turn back on, wash hands of |
| Antonyms: | accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, claim, own |
| Main Entry: | eschew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have nothing to do with |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abjure, abstain, avoid, double, duck, elude, evade, forgo, forswear, give up, have no truck with, let well enough alone, not touch, refrain, renounce, sacrifice, shun, shy, shy away from, steer clear of, swear off |
| Antonyms: | embrace, like, love |
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