| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
Synonyms: |
ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle |
Antonyms: |
directness, facing, meeting |
| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
Synonyms: |
anagram, double meaning, double-entendre, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enigma, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, obscurity, polysemousness, polysemy, puzzle, tergiversation, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness |
Antonyms: |
certainty, clarity, clearness, definiteness, explicitness, lucidity |
| Main Entry: | casuistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overgeneral reasoning |
Synonyms: |
chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
Synonyms: |
beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | double entendre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | play on words |
Synonyms: |
ambiguity, amphibiology, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, innuendo, joke, pun, tergiversation |
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
Synonyms: |
amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
Antonyms: |
sense, straight talk |
| Main Entry: | evasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape, avoidance |
Synonyms: |
artifice, circumvention, cop-out, cunning, ditch*, dodge*, dodging, elusion, equivocating, equivocation, eschewal, evading, evasiveness, excuse, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, lie, obliqueness, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, shirking, shuffling, shunning, slip*, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall, subterfuge, trick, trickery |
Antonyms: |
directness, facing, meeting |
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
Synonyms: |
aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth |
Antonyms: |
certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| 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: | 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 |