| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
cheat, cock-and-bull story, con game, con*, crock, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, fib, flimflam, fraud, gimmick, gyp, hooey, humbug, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, put-on, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
Synonyms: |
canard, cock-and-bull story, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, misrepresentation, prevarication, tale, untruism, untruth, white lie |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | cock-and-bull story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting but unbelievable story |
Synonyms: |
fanciful tale, farfetched story, fish story, flight of fancy, song and dance, tall story, tall tale, unbelievable tale |
| Main Entry: | fish story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated story |
Synonyms: |
bunk, cock-and-bull story, embellishment, exaggeration, farfetched story, incredible story, lie, overstatement, tall story, tall tale, trumped-up story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | tall tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farfetched story |
Synonyms: |
cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fable, fish story, flight of fancy, tall story, yarn |
| 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 |