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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | canard, chestnut, clothesline, cock-and-bull story, defamation, detraction, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, rigmarole, rumor, scandal, slander, spiel*, tall story, untruism, untruth, yarn |
| Antonyms: | non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
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, imitation, 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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| Concept: | Falsehood. |
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-nouns
falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin., perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi (lie); mystification (concealment); simulation (imitation); dissimulation, dissembling; decit; blague., sham; pretense, pretending, malingering., lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy'; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy (bad faith); il volto sciotlo i pensieri stretti., unfairness (dishonesty); artfulness (cunning); misstatement (error).
-verbs
be false, be a liar [more]; speak falsely; tell a lie; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness., misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose., garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate; blague., invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance (imagine); cry "wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour., cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive.
-adjectives
false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn., canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected., collusive, collusory; artful (cunning); perfidious; spurious (deceptive); untrue; falsified; covinous.
-adverbs
falsely; a la Tartufe, with a double tongue; silly (cunning).
-phrases
blandae mendacia lingua; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; "I give him joy that's awkward at a lie" [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas; "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" [Merchant of Venice]
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| Antonyms: | veracity |
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