Untruth
Nouns
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untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper
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jhuth. forgery, fabrication, invention
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misstatement, misrepresentation
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perversion, falsification, gloss
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exaggeration etc. Exaggeration. invention, fabrication, fiction
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fable, nursery tale
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romance etc. (imagination) Imagination
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absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement
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thing devised by the enemy
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canard
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shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake
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claptrap. press agent's yarn
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puff, puffery (exaggeration) Exaggeration. myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce. irony
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half truth, white lie, pious fraud
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mental reservation etc. (concealment) Concealment. pretense, pretext
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false plea etc. [Ostensible motive, ground, or reason assigned.] Pretext
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subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe
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sham etc. (deception) Deception. profession, empty words
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Judas kiss etc. (hypocrisy) Falsehood
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disguise etc. (mask) Ambush [Means of concealment]..
Adjectives
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untrue, false, phony, trumped up
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void of foundation, without-foundation
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fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths
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unfounded, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged
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fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious
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elusory, illusory
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ironical
Phrases
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where none is meant that meets the ear" [Milton].