Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insincerity |
| Synonyms: | deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie, lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | sincerity |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, 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, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
| Synonyms: | bad faith, chicane, chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, mendacity, perfidy, sharp practice, treachery, trickery, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn |
| Notes: | a falsehood is a false statement, a lie, or untruth; falseness is the state of being false or untrue |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | fib |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, crock, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, spinach, story, tale, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | untruth |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, 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, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, whopper |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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