Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Falsehood

Nouns
  • falsehood, falseness
  • falsity, falsification
  • deception etc. Deception
  • untruth etc. Untruth
  • guile
  • lying etc. [Subject of thought] Topic
  • untruth etc. Untruth
  • guile
  • lying etc. v.. misrepresentation
  • mendacity, perjury, false swearing
  • forgery, invention, fabrication
  • subreption
  • covin. perversion of truth, suppression of truth
  • perversion, distortion, false coloring
  • exaggeration etc. Exaggeration
  • prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud
  • mystification etc. (concealment) Concealment
  • simulation etc. (imitation) Imitation
  • dissimulation, dissembling
  • deceit
  • blague. sham
  • pretense, pretending, malingering. lip homage, lip service
  • mouth honor
  • hollowness
  • mere show, mere outside
  • duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug
  • jesuitism, jesuitry
  • pharisaism
  • Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy
  • " crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery
  • charlatanism, charlatanry
  • gammon
  • bun-kum, bumcombe, flam
  • bam [Slang], flimflam, cajolery, flattery
  • Judas kiss
  • perfidy etc. (bad faith) Improbity
  • artfulness etc. (cunning) Cunning
  • misstatement etc. (error) Error.
Verbs
  • be false etc. adj., be a liar etc. Deceiver
  • speak falsely etc. adv.
  • tell a lie etc. Untruth
  • lie, fib
  • lie like a trooper
  • swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness. misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent
  • belie, falsify, pervert, distort
  • put a false construction upon etc. (misinterpret)
  • prevaricate, equivocate, quibble
  • palter, palter to the understanding
  • trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose. garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to
  • give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon
  • color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider
  • varnish right and puzzle wrong
  • exaggerate etc. Exaggeration
  • blague. invent, fabricate
  • trump up, get up
  • force, fake, hatch, concoct
  • romance etc. (imagine) Imagination
  • cry 'wolf!'. dissemble, dissimulate
  • feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe
  • play possum
  • play false, play a double game
  • coquet
  • act a part, play a part
  • affect etc. Affectation
  • simulate, pass off for
  • counterfeit, sham, make a show of
  • malinger
  • say the grapes are sour. cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror
  • hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors
  • commend the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]
  • deceive etc. Deception.
Adjectives
  • false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless
  • unfair, uncandid
  • hollow-hearted
  • evasive
  • uningenuous, disingenuous
  • hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior
  • forsworn. artificial, contrived
  • canting
  • hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical
  • tartuffish
  • Machiavelian
  • double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing
  • Janus faced
  • smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued
  • plausible
  • mealy-mouthed
  • affected etc. Affectation. collusive, collusory
  • artful etc. (cunning) Cunning
  • perfidious etc. Improbity
  • spurious etc. (deceptive) Deception
  • untrue etc. Untruth
  • falsified etc. v.
  • covinous.
Adverbs
  • falsely etc. adj.
  • a la tartufe, with a double tongue
  • silly etc. (cunning) Cunning.
Phrases
  • I give him joy that's awkward at a lie" [Young]
  • O what a goodly outside falsehood hath" [Merchant of Venice].