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lying [lahy-ing]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: committing perjury, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, double-dealing, equivocating, false, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, mendacious, misleading, misrepresenting, misstating, perfidious, prevaricating, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong
Antonyms: direct, frank, honest
Main Entry: deceitful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, insincere
Synonyms: artful, astucious, astute, beguiling, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hypocritical, illusory, impostrous, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily
Notes: deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone
Antonyms: faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright
Main Entry: deceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily
Notes: deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
Main Entry: double-dealing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cheating, deceitful
Synonyms: ambidextrous, crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, left- handed, lying, perfidious, sneaky, swindling, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily
Antonyms: forthright, honest, truthful
Main Entry: evasive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, tricky
Synonyms: ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly, sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague
Notes: elusive is used when what is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is used when what is being avoided is direct or relevant response to a verbal challenge
Antonyms: direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward
Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, made up
Synonyms: apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real
Antonyms: accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid
Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, hypocritical
Synonyms: apostate, base, beguiling, canting, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, devious, dishonorable, disloyal, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, falsehearted, forsworn, foul, lying, malevolent, malicious, mean, misleading, mythomaniac, perfidious, perjured, rascally, recreant, renegade, scoundrelly, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, underhanded, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, villainous, wicked
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real
Antonyms: genuine, honest, just, reliable, right, straight, true, truthful
Main Entry: hypocritical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, pretending
Synonyms: affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable
Antonyms: actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright
Main Entry: insincere
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, pretended
Synonyms: ambidextrous, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, dissembling, dissimulating, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, put-on, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere
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