Another word for untruth
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Noun
An untrue declaration
- Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- A gross untruth.
- a kind of story or folk tale characterized by intentionally ludicrous exaggeration and incredible incidents
- An implausible, boastful story.
- A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation:
- A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.
- A deliberate lie; a falsehood.
- An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events:
- An anecdote:
- A lie:
- A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation. A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation.
- To be or place oneself at rest in a flat, horizontal, or recumbent position; recline:
- To be placed on or supported by a surface that is usually horizontal:
- To be or remain in a specified condition:
- Lack of veracity; untruthfulness.
- An untruth; a falsehood.
- The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
- Works in this category:
- A work within this category:
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- To tell a fib.
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- An absurd or highly improbable tale passed off as being true.
- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
See also:An erroneous or false idea
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
- The characteristic of being false.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- A false notion.
- A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
- Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
- An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
- The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
- The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
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Another word for untruth
Noun
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- Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- A gross untruth.
- A satirical imitation; a parody or send-up.
- A deception or ruse.
- To do a spoof of; satirize.
- The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
- Hiding one's feelings or purposes.
- An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
- A misconception or misunderstanding.
- To understand wrongly; misinterpret:
- To deceive by trickery; swindle:
- To deprive by trickery; defraud:
- To mislead; fool:
- Any of various chiefly coastal seabirds of the family Laridae, having long wings, webbed feet, a thick, slightly hooked beak, and usually gray and white plumage.
- A false appearance or action intended to deceive:
- A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext:
- Something imagined or pretended:
- An act or procedure intended to achieve an end by deceptive or fraudulent means.
- A mischievous action; a prank:
- A stupid, disgraceful, or childish act:
- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
- The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
- A stratagem; a trick.
- The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
- The act or an instance of distorting.
- The condition of being distorted.
- A statement that twists fact; a misrepresentation.
- A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation. A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation.
- To be or place oneself at rest in a flat, horizontal, or recumbent position; recline:
- To be placed on or supported by a surface that is usually horizontal:
- To be or remain in a specified condition:
- The act or an instance of evading.
- A means of evading; a subterfuge.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
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