Words and phrases that have a meaning related to untruth: (158 results)
Antonyms:
true statement, truth
Often used in the same context:
falsehood, falsity, deceit, truth, misquotation, mendacity, fallacy, disinformation, disingenuousness, misrepresentation, exaggeration, dishonesty, falseness, misinformation, calumny, canard, tommyrot, twaddle, misquote, inuendo, sophistry, obfuscation, hogwash, deception, innuendo, doublespeak, hyperbole, fibs, prevarication, speciousness, liar, dissembling, logical fallacy, humbug, balderdash, fraudulence, slander, foolishness, hypocrisy, tautology, baldfaced, libels, tosh, poppycock, obscurantism, tu quoque, smears, imposture, fibbers, refutations, truthy, ignorance, fictions, imputations, syllogism, inexactitude, nonsense, accusation, doublethink, myth, dubiousness, dissimulation, weasel words, sophism, ad hominem, casuistry, allegation, underhandedness, doubletalk, misdeed, repulsiveness, revisionism, knavery, buncombe, antisemite, sanctimoniousness, bunkum, nefariousness, misstatement, factuality, misspeaks, misguidance, duplicity, wishfulness, propaganda, abomination, codswallop, malignity, drivel, charlatan, inaccuracies, illogic, mudslinger, equivocation, fabrications, claptrap, heresies, solecism, journalese, presumptuousness, fatuousness, falsehoods, untruths, injustice, unfairness, absurdity, contradiction, disrespect, falsification, forgery, illegality, impropriety, lie, perversion, insincerity, immorality, misunderstanding, multitude, disillusioning, dispiriting, duchess, eternal, eventful, everlasting, glorious, grimmer, grimmest, hap, historic, momentous, must, ours, perilous, purer, sempiternal, sickness, sorry
More specific:
contradiction in terms, dodge, dodging, fable, fabrication, fiction, scheme
Appears in the definition of:
betray, deceive, hearsay, lead astray, lie, perjure, rumor, rumour, walloper, whopper
More general:
statement
Synonyms:
Also try:false statement
— Adjectives for untruth: deliberate, utter, obvious, such, palpable, great, much, absolute, manifest, direct, blatant, more...
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