falsehood

Roget-categorie 544

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#544. Falsehood

zelfstandig naamwoord

falsehood, falseness — falsity, falsification — deception etc. 545 — untruth etc. 546 — guile — lying etc. 454 — untruth etc. 546 — guile — lying etc. v.. misrepresentation — mendacity, perjury, false swearing — forgery, invention, fabrication — subreption^† — covin^†.
perversion of truth, suppression of truth — suppressio veri [Lat.] — perversion, distortion, false coloring — exaggeration etc. 549 — prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud — suggestio falsi etc. (lie) 546 [Lat.] — mystification etc. (concealment) 528 — simulation etc. (imitation) 19 — dissimulation, dissembling — deceit — blague^†.
sham — pretense, pretending, malingering.
lip homage, lip service — mouth honor — hollowness — mere show, mere outside — duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug — jesuitism, jesuitry — pharisaism — Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy —" crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness^†, quackery — charlatanism^†, charlatanry — gammon — bun-kum^†, bumcombe, flam — bam [Slang], flimflam, cajolery, flattery — Judas kiss — perfidy etc. (bad faith) 940 — il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness etc. (dishonesty) 940 — artfulness etc. (cunning) 702 — misstatement etc. (error) 495.

werkwoord

be false etc. adj., be a liar etc. 548 — speak falsely etc. adv. — tell a lie etc. 546 — lie, fib — lie like a trooper — swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness.
misstate, misquote, miscite^†, misreport, misrepresent — belie, falsify, pervert, distort — put a false construction upon etc. (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble — palter, palter to the understanding — repondre en Normand [Fr.] — trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to — give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon — color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider — varnish right and puzzle wrong — exaggerate etc. 549 — blague^†.
invent, fabricate — trump up, get up — force, fake, hatch, concoct — romance etc. (imagine) 515 — cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble, dissimulate — feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe — play possum — play false, play a double game — coquet — act a part, play a part — affect etc. 855 — simulate, pass off for — counterfeit, sham, make a show of — malinger — say the grapes are sour.
cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror — hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors — commend the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.] — deceive etc. 545.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless — unfair, uncandid — hollow-hearted — evasive — uningenuous, disingenuous — hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior — forsworn.
artificial, contrived — canting — hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical — tartuffish — Machiavelian — double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing — Janus faced — smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued — plausible — mealy-mouthed — affected etc. 855.
collusive, collusory — artful etc. (cunning) 702 — perfidious etc. 940 — spurious etc. (deceptive) 545 — untrue etc. 546 — falsified etc. v. — covinous.

bijwoord

falsely etc. adj. — a la tartufe, with a double tongue — silly etc. (cunning) 702.

uitdrukking

blandae mendacia lingua [Lat.] — falsus in uno falsus in omnibus [Lat.] — I give him joy that's awkward at a lie" [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas [Sp.] — O what a goodly outside falsehood hath" [Merchant of Venice].

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