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Synonyms for falsehood
noun lie

prevarication
tall tale
deception
falsity
misstatement
cover-up
distortion
perjury
untruth
deceit

sham
dishonesty
fabrication
fallacy
falseness
canard
fable
story
fiction
fib

whopper
figment
fraud
line
pretense
hogwash
equivocation
yarn
tale
untruthfulness

error
mendacity
erroneousness
fakery
fallaciousness
dissimulation
feigning
fibbery
half truth
untruism

Antonyms for falsehood

frankness
honesty
truthfulness

uprightness
reality
openness

truth
non-fiction

Concept Thesaurus for word falsehood
Synonyms – noun

falsehood
deception
untruth
perjury
fabrication
suppression of truth
false coloring
shuffling
suggestio falsi (lie)
dissembling
pretense
lip service
mere outside
hypocrisy
jesuitry
crocodile tears
charlatanry
flam
flattery
unfairness (dishonesty)

falseness
untruth
guile
false swearing
subreption
suppressio veri
exaggeration
fencing
mystification (concealment)
decit
pretending
mouth honor
duplicity
cant
pharisaism
mealy-mouthedness
gammon
bam
Judas kiss
artfulness (cunning)

falsity
guile
lying misrepresentation
forgery
covin.
perversion
prevarication
evasion
simulation (imitation)
blague.
malingering.
hollowness
double dealing
humbug
Machiavelism
quackery
bun-kum
flimflam
perfidy (bad faith)
misstatement (error)

falsification
lying
mendacity
invention
perversion of truth
distortion
equivocation
fraud
dissimulation
sham
lip homage
mere show
insincerity
jesuitism
“organized hypocrisy’
charlatanism
bumcombe
cajolery
il volto sciotlo i pensieri stretti.

Synonyms – verbs

be false
lie
forswear
misquote
belie
put a false construction upon (misinterpret)
palter
shuffle
blow hot and cold
disguise
put false coloring upon
dress up
blague.
get up
concoct
dissimulate
pretend
play a double game
affect
sham
cant
put on the mask
hold out false colors
deceive

be a liar[more]
fib
perjure oneself
miscite
falsify
prevaricate
palter to the understanding
fence
play fast and loose.
give a color to
color
embroider
invent
force
romance (imagine)
feign
make believe
coquet
simulate
make a show of
play the hypocrite
clean the outside of the platter
sail under false colors

speak falsely
lie like a trooper
bear false witness.
misreport
pervert
equivocate
repondre en Normand
mince the truth
garble
give a gloss
varnish
varnish right and puzzle wrong
fabricate
fake
cry “wolf!’
assume
play possum
act a part
pass off for
malinger
sham Abraham
lie like a conjuror
“commend the poisoned chalice to the lips” [Macbeth]

tell a lie
swear false
misstate
misrepresent
distort
quibble
trim
beat about the bush
gloss over
put a gloss
cook
exaggerate
trump up
hatch
dissemble
put on
play false
play a part
counterfeit
say the grapes are sour.
faire pattes de velours
hand out false colors
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces

Synonyms – adjectives

false
fraudulent
trothless
evasive
sincere
hypocritical
Machiavelian
double handed
Janus faced
plausible
collusory
untrue

deceitful
dishonest
unfair
uningenuous
Parthis mendacior
jesuitical
double
double minded
smooth-faced
mealy-mouthed
artful (cunning)
falsified

mendacious
faithless
uncandid
disingenuous
forsworn.
pharisaical
double tongued
double hearted
smooth spoken
affected
perfidious
covinous.

unveracious
truthless
hollow-hearted
hollow
canting
tartuffish
double faced
double dealing
smooth tongued
collusive
spurious (deceptive)

Synonyms – phrases
blandae mendacia lingua; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; “I give him joy that’s awkward at a lie” [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas; “O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” [Merchant of Venice]
Antonyms

veracity

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Other adjectives related to falsehood

Machiavellian
canting
counterfeit
dishonest
double
fabricated
fake
falsified
flannelmouthed
hollow
indirect
janus
pharisaical
pseudo
shadowy
soi
tartuffish
truthless
uningenuous
without foundation

artful
chimerical
covinous
disingenuous
double
fabulous
false
far from the truth
forged
hypocritical
insincere
mealy
phony
quasi
shifty
supposititious
tortuous
uncandid
untrue

backhanded
collusive
crooked
double
evasive
factitious
false as dicer’s oaths
fictitious
forsworn
illusory
invented
pecksniffian
plausible
questionable
smooth
surreptitious
trothless
unfair
unveracious

bogus
collusory
deceitful
double
exorbitant
faithless
falsidical
fishy
fraudulent
imitation
ironical
perfidious
prodigal
sanctimonious
smooth
synthetic
trumped up
unfounded
void of foundation

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