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| Main Entry: | lying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double-dealing*, false, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong, committing perjury, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, misrepresenting, misstating, prevaricating |
| Antonyms: | direct, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
| Synonyms: | beguile, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, make believe, malign, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, snow*, string along*, victimize, BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, break promise, go back on, misguide, misinstruct, misspeak, overdraw, put up a front, soft-soap |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be prostrate, flat |
| Synonyms: | couch, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, sleep, sprawl, turn in, be prone, be recumbent, be supine, go to bed, laze, lie down, siesta, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten, be upright |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be situated |
| Synonyms: | be, belong, beset, exist, extend, occupy, prevail, reach, remain, spread, stretch, be beside, be buried, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be seated, be smooth, have its seat in |
| Main Entry: | deceitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, insincere |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceptive, delusive, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, delusory, guileful, impostrous |
| Antonyms: | faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheating, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, lying, perfidious, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily, ambidextrous, left- handed, swindling |
| Antonyms: | forthright, honest, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | facing, meeting, directness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, tricky |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling |
| Antonyms: | direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, deceptive, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, fishy*, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, left-handed, lying, oily, phony, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced*, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, caviling, deluding, dissembling, feigning, jivey, moralistic, pharisaical, pietistic, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insincere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, pretended |
| Synonyms: | backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced*, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful, ambidextrous, dissembling, dissimulating, put-on |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | libel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purposeful lie about someone, often malicious |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, calumny, defamation, lying, malicious, obloquy, smear, vituperation, denigration |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | mendacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, erroneous, fallacious, false, fraudulent, insincere, lying, perfidious, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong, equivocating, fibbing, paltering, perjured, prevaricating |
| Antonyms: | frank, honest, sincere, truthful |
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roguish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful; mischievous |
| Synonyms: | crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devilish, dishonest, fraudulent, impish, knavish, lying, naughty, playful, puckish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, untruthful, beguiling, deceiving, rascally |
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, affected, assumed, bogus*, dummy, ersatz*, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, lying, make-believe, misleading, mock, phony, plaster*, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, untrue |
| Antonyms: | real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, untrustworthy |
| Synonyms: | cagey, collusive, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, duplicitous, elusive, evasive, fly-by-night*, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious, roguish, scheming, shady, shrewd, slick, slimy*, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unprincipled, untruthful, wily, conniving, contriving, dodging, equivocating, prevaricative, prevaricatory, shuffling, unhonest |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trumped up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made up |
| Synonyms: | bogus, deceitful, dishonest, fake, false, falsified, fictitious, fishy, framed, fraudulent, imaginary, incorrect, invalid, lying, misleading, phony, sham, unfounded, unsound, untrue, concocted, cooked up, cooked-up, devised, fabricated, invented, made up |
| Main Entry: | two-faced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful |
| Synonyms: | artful, crafty, cunning, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, foxy, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, knavish, lying, misleading, shifty, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhanded, untruthful, backstabbing, beguiling, deceiving, guileful |
| Main Entry: | untrue |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, cheating, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, hollow, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, perfidious, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, unfaithful, unsound, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong, counterfactual, dissembling, forsworn, imprecise, out of line, perjured, prevaricating, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | faithful, honest, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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