Lie synonyms
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Part of speech:
Something that deceives, as an illusion, or is meant to deceive, as a fraud
(Uncountable) Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
The condition of being fraudulent
The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
(Optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
A false or damaging accusation or insinuation:
Obloquy is verbal abuse, or disgrace resulting from abuse.
An untrue statement; falsehood; lie
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tall-story
A tale or an account of questionable veracity; a lie.
The definition of fabrication is something that is false or not real.
A dishonest action or trick; fraud or lie
An error or mistake
disinformation
The dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead.
barefaced-lie
A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
inoperative statement
An intentional misstatement
Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
Deception used to achieve an end:
An absurd or highly improbable tale passed off as being true.
A false and malicious statement meant to hurt someone's reputation
A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
An act of committing such a crime:
Anything that gives an unflattering or damaging picture of the subject with which it is dealing
Anything forged
An often trivial, diplomatic or well-intentioned untruth.
corker
One that corks bottles, for example.
Something remarkably large
To incline or turn from a direct line or course, esp. one that is perpendicular or level; slope
To speak evil of; defame; slander; traduce
To design a new process or mechanism.
(Idiomatic) to create falsely, to fabricate (particularly applied to accusations, (legal) charges or evidence).
be established
To be situated
horizontal (related)
To be or place oneself in a prostrate or recumbent position.
dirty lie
An intentional misstatement
The telling of a lie or lies
To give a false or misleading account of
To desert a cause, party, etc.; become a renegade; apostatize
Romantic legend or tradition:
deceptiveness
The state or quality of being deceptive
(Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
An intentional misstatement
A defaming or being defamed; detraction, slander, or libel
A derogatory or damaging comment on a person's character or reputation; disparagement:
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
The act of reviling.
Slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination
false swearing
An intentional misstatement
garbled version
An intentional misstatement
An exaggerated or boastful story; a tall tale.
cock-and-bull
An intentional misstatement
The definition of a crock is a pot made of earthenware, or a piece of earthenware, or is slang for something that is nonsense.
(Informal) Foolish talk or thought; nonsense.
Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
A means of evading; a subterfuge.
(Finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
To tell an untruth; lie
tell a lie
To utter an untruth
To use equivocal terms in order to deceive, mislead, hedge, etc.; be deliberately ambiguous
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
To lead in a wrong direction; lead astray
To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information.
To state wrongly or falsely.
misspeak
To speak mistakenly, inappropriately, or rashly.
tell a falsehood
To utter an untruth
be untruthful
To utter an untruth
To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer engage in (an activity or habit, for example):
be a liar
To utter an untruth
To deceive by trickery; fool or cheat
To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
To interlock or interlace:
To state in exaggerated terms.
To add grace notes, syncopated accents, trills, etc. to (a melody)
To make by means of needlework:
To make an overdraft.
To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.
Dissemble is defined as to hide or be dishonest about your true motives, feelings or beliefs.
perjure oneself
To utter an untruth
To fool, as by false promises or wrong notions; mislead; deceive; trick
To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
To constitute; to compose; to form.
To talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate.
To beguile is defined as to deceive someone in a cunning way or to enchant someone and make him become attracted to you.
tell a white lie
To utter an untruth
stretch-the-truth
(Idiomatic) to exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.
spin a long yarn
To utter an untruth
make out of whole cloth
To utter an untruth
To be or become long, large, or comprehensive:
be on
To be situated
be beside
To be situated
be located
To be situated
be fixed
To be situated
be placed
To be situated
be seated
To be situated
be set
To be situated
be level
To be situated
be smooth
To be situated
be-even
To be situated
be plane
To be situated
exist in space
To be situated
To use persuasion or inducement successfully. Often used with on, upon, or with.
Endure is defined as to put up with or to undergo.
stretch along
To be situated
reach along
To be situated
spread along
To be situated
be recumbent
To be prostrate
be helpless
To be prostrate
be supine
To be prostrate
be exhausted
To be prostrate
be flat
To be prostrate
be prone
To be prostrate
To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly.
To lean or lounge about in a relaxed or lazy manner
To be lazy or idle; loaf
be stretched out
To be prostrate
be powerless
To be prostrate
be thrown down
To be prostrate
To lie or lean back or down; specif., to rest or repose lying down
To rest in death or a grave
To lie fully extended
To lie down on a bed, as to sleep; recline
To give up one's work, business, career, etc., esp. because of advanced age
take a nap
To assume a prostrate position
take a siesta
To assume a prostrate position
(Idiomatic) To go to bed.
veracity (antonym)
Accordance with truth; accuracy of statement
truthfulness (antonym)
The quality of being truthful
stand (antonym)
Stand is defined as to be in an upright position.
be upright (antonym)
To be prostrate
sit (antonym)
To rest on the haunches with the forelegs braced
rise (antonym)
Rise is defined as to wake up, stand up, go to a higher place or increase in amount.
get up (antonym)
To assume a prostrate position
arise (antonym)
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
dishonesty (related)
Lack of honesty or integrity; improbity.
trick (related)
An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
occupy (related)
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
rest (related)
To be supported or based; lie, lean, or sit:
sleep (related)
(Intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
Of the lowest degree; miserable; wretched
The definition of blatant is to be very forward, loud or conspicuous.
Not truthful; lying or false
prevaricative
tergiversatory
The definition of a canard is a false or misleading story.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
fabulation
The act or result of fabulating; a fabrication.
Lack of veracity; untruthfulness
roorback
Alternative form of roorbach.
subreption
Deliberate concealment or misrepresentation of facts so as to gain some benefit or advantage
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
(Figuratively) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
To give a false impression:
To continue being; live
fabulate
To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those featuring a strong element of fantasy:
To fudge means to manipulate or conceal the truth.
(Intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]
(Rare) To locate
To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome:
To continue; go on being
To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.
fact (antonym)
Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed:
honesty (antonym)
Sincerity; fairness; straightforwardness
straighten (antonym)
Straighten is to make something orderly or unwavy.
tell truth (antonym)
falsify
be honest (antonym)
tell an untruth
Also used with down: recline
To be or place oneself in a prostrate or recumbent position.
To increase the quantity of by admixture or dilution:
To be contained or inherent (in something) as a cause, effect, or characteristic
To fasten one's attention on something, especially moodily or persistently:
To be inherent or innate.
Reside is defined as to live or dwell somewhere.
(Idiomatic) A greatly exaggerated, fantastic story.
continue (related)
To carry on; persist in:
true (related)
Proper alignment or adjustment:
Trygve Lie
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
Trygve Halvden Lie
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
(Archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
(Uncountable) The state of being untruthful; dishonesty.
(Uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
lollapalooza
(Informal) An outstanding, extreme, or outrageous example of its kind.
To be an improper or bad representative of
say one thing and mean another
To utter an untruth
To stand, move, sit, lie, etc. in a relaxed or lazy way; loll
start (related)
Start is defined as to begin, set out to appear or to move suddenly.
lay (related)
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
Synonym Study
- Fib imp lie s the telling of a falsehood about something unimportant and is sometimes a euphemism for lie
- Fabricate suggests the invention of a false story, excuse, etc. intended to deceive but may be somewhat softer in connotation than lie
- Equivocate implies the deliberate use of ambiguity in order to deceive or mislead
- Prevaricate strictly means to quibble or confuse the issue in order to evade the truth, but it is loosely used as a formal or affected substitute for lie
- Lie is the simple direct word meaning to make a deliberately false statement
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