| Main Entry: | untruthfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
Synonyms: |
canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, truthlessness, whopper |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | perjury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsehood, falsification, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | credibility gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of trust |
Synonyms: |
discrepancy, disparity, doubtfulness, forswearing, inconsistency, perjury, question, unreliability, untrustworthiness, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | mendacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insincerity |
Synonyms: |
deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie, lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness |
Antonyms: |
sincerity |
| Main Entry: | falseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
Synonyms: |
erroneousness, error, falsehood, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | truthlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falseness |
Synonyms: |
canard, deceit, distortion, falsehood, inveracity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perjury, prevarication, untruthfulness, whopper |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
imitation, Machiavellian, artful, backhanded, bogus, canting, chimerical, collusive, collusory, counterfeit, covinous, crooked, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double, double, double, evasive, exorbitant, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, faithless, fake, false, false as dicer's oaths, falsidical, falsified, far from the truth, fictitious, fishy, flannelmouthed, forged, forsworn, fraudulent, hollow, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insincere, invented, ironical, janus, mealy, pecksniffian, perfidious, pharisaical, phony, plausible, prodigal, pseudo, quasi, questionable, sanctimonious, shadowy, shifty, smooth, smooth, soi, supposititious, surreptitious, synthetic, tartuffish, tortuous, trothless, trumped up, truthless, uncandid, unfair, unfounded, uningenuous, untrue, unveracious, void of foundation, without foundation
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