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| Main Entry: |
perjury
 [pur-juh-ree] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsehood, falsification, untruth, untruthfulness |
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| 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 |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- The difference between perjury and mendacity is not in the least one of morals or ethics.
- She refused to talk but was charged with perjury.
- Suggestions that a governor should be investigated for possible criminal prosecution for perjury would usually be devastating.
| Main Entry: | credibility gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of trust |
| Synonyms: | discrepancy, disparity, doubtfulness, forswearing, inconsistency, perjury, question, unreliability, untrustworthiness, untruthfulness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | truthlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, untruthfulness, whopper |
| Main Entry: | untruthfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, truthlessness, whopper |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
imitation, Machiavellian, artful, backhanded, bogus, canting, chimerical, collusive, collusory, counterfeit, covinous, crooked, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double, double, double, evasive, exorbitant, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, faithless, fake, false, false as dicer's oaths, falsidical, falsified, far from the truth, fictitious, fishy, flannelmouthed, forged, forsworn, fraudulent, hollow, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insincere, invented, ironical, janus, mealy, pecksniffian, perfidious, pharisaical, phony, plausible, prodigal, pseudo, quasi, questionable, sanctimonious, shadowy, shifty, smooth, smooth, soi, supposititious, surreptitious, synthetic, tartuffish, tortuous, trothless, trumped up, truthless, uncandid, unfair, unfounded, uningenuous, untrue, unveracious, void of foundation, without foundation
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