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Perjury

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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: 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
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
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
Related Words
Main Entry: falsehood
Part of Speech: noun
Related
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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