misrepresentation
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(noun) a misleading falsehood |
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Synonyms: deceit, deception |
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Related Words: blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, false statement, falsehood, falsity, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, untruth, window dressing |
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(noun) a willful act of falsifying |
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Synonyms: falsehood, falsification |
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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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