falsehood
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(noun) a false statement |
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Synonyms: false statement, falsity, untruth |
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Related Words: contradiction, contradiction in terms, deceit, deception, dodge, dodging, fable, fabrication, fiction, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, scheme, statement |
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Antonyms: truth |
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(noun) a willful act of falsifying |
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Synonyms: falsification, misrepresentation |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, fabrication, forgery, frame-up, knavery, lying, overrefinement, piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarization, prevarication, setup, straining, tergiversation, torture, twisting |
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