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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, made up
Synonyms: apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up*, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful
Antonyms: accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, hypocritical
Synonyms: apostate, base, beguiling, canting, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, devious, dishonorable, disloyal, double-dealing*, duplicitous, faithless, falsehearted, forsworn, foul, lying, malevolent, malicious, mean, misleading, mythomaniac, perfidious, perjured, rascally, recreant, renegade, scoundrelly, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced*, underhanded, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, villainous, wicked
Antonyms: genuine, honest, just, reliable, right, straight, true, truthful
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake, counterfeit
Synonyms: adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock*, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy*, forged, framed*, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called*, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong
Antonyms: actual, genuine, real, valid
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Devoid of truth.
Synonyms: counterfactual, specious, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Main Entry: erroneous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Containing an error or errors.
Synonyms: fallacious, inaccurate, incorrect, mistaken, off, unsound, untrue, wrong
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Main Entry: fallacious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Containing fundamental errors in reasoning.
Synonyms: illogical, invalid, sophistic, specious, spurious, unsound
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Fraudulently or deceptively imitative.
Synonyms: bogus, fake, fraudulent, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Main Entry: faithless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Not true to duty or obligation.
Synonyms: disloyal, false-hearted, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: apocryphal, apostate, arrant, artificial, assumed, barmecidal, bogus, concocted, counterfeit, crooked, deceitful, deceptive, delusional, devious, disaffected, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, disloyal, duplicitous, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, groundless, guise, hollow, hypocritical, ignominious, illusional, illusive, illusory, imaginary, inaccurate, inauthentic, incorrect, inexact, infamous, insincere, make believe, mendacious, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, mythical, not so, paradoxical, perfidious, perjurious, phony, postiche, pretended, pseudo, pseudological, recreant, renegade, sham, sophistical, specious, spectral, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, trumped-up, unauthentic, unfaithful, unreal, untenable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, unveracious, wrong
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: noun
Synonyms: bathos, canard, cretinism, delusion, dissemblance, duplicity, fabrication, fabulation, facade, fake, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fib, frame-up, guise, hallucination, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, invention, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misconception, misrepresentation, paradoxicality, paralogism, perfidy, perjury, pretense, pseudology, roorback, sham, simulation, speciosity, tarradiddle, treachery, trojan horse, unfaithfulness, unveracity
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Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: verb
Synonyms: abuse, belie, defame, dissemble, fake, feign, libel, lie, simulate, slander
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