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Main Entry: misrepresentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falsehood

Synonyms:

adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, false light, falsification, lie, misstatement, mutilation, not a true picture, slant, story*, stretch, tall story, twist, untruth
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Misrepresentation.
Category: 1. Natural Means

Synonyms:

-nouns
misrepresentation, distortion, caricatura, exaggeration; daubing; bad likeness, daub, sign painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis; burlesque, falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty.
-verbs
misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub; burlesque, parody, travesty.
-adjectives
misrepresented.

Antonyms:

representation
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Main Entry: corruption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dishonesty

Synonyms:

breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, fraud, fraudulency, graft, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, unscrupulousness, venality

Antonyms:

decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness
Main Entry: deceit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: particular type of trick, misleading

Synonyms:

artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears, deception, dirty trick, dirty work, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sellout, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors, snow job, soft soap, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindle, trick, whitewash, wile
Main Entry: distortion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deformity; falsification

Synonyms:

BS, baloney, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, crookedness, exaggeration, intorsion, jazz, jive, lie, line, malconformation, malformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misuse, mutilation, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, tall story, torture, twist, twistedness, warp

Antonyms:

beauty, clarity, perfection
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: exaggeration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overstatement, embellishment

Synonyms:

aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn

Antonyms:

minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment
Main Entry: falsity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dishonesty, deception

Synonyms:

canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth

Antonyms:

honesty, truth, truthfulness
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
Main Entry: fiction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story

Synonyms:

anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn

Antonyms:

non-fiction, truth
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