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untruthfulness
[uhn-trooth-fuhl] 
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untruthfulness
[uhn-trooth-fuhl]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, truthlessness, whopper |
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| 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: | perjury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsehood, falsification, untruth, untruthfulness |
| 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: | mendacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insincerity |
| Synonyms: | deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie, lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | sincerity |
| Main Entry: | falseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | erroneousness, error, falsehood, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | truthlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, untruthfulness, whopper |
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| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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