Noun
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a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
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lie |
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untruth,
falsehood,
falsity a false statement
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fib,
tale,
taradiddle,
tarradiddle,
story a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
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jactitation (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
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whopper,
walloper a gross untruth; a blatant lie
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the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
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lying,
fabrication |
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misrepresentation,
falsification a misleading falsehood
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| prevarication -
intentionally vague or ambiguous
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equivocation,
evasiveness |
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untruthfulness the quality of being untruthful
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equivocalness,
ambiguity unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
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