untruth
Roget-categorie 546
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.9. Modes of communication
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Untruth
zelfstandig naamwoord
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper —
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention —
misstatement,
misrepresentation —
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.] —
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction —
fable,
nursery tale —
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515 —
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement —
thing devised by the enemy —
canard —
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake —
claptrap.
press agent's yarn —
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony —
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud —
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext —
false plea
etc.
617 —
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe —
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words —
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544 —
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
werkwoord
have a false meaning.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
untrue,
false,
phony,
trumped up —
void of foundation,
without-foundation —
fictive,
far from the truth,
false as dicer's oaths —
unfounded,
ben trovato [It],
invented,
fabulous,
fabricated,
forged —
fictitious,
factitious,
supposititious,
surreptitious —
elusory†,
illusory —
ironical —
soi-disant [Fr.]
etc.
(misnamed)
565.
uitdrukking
se non e vero e ben trovato [It] —
where none is meant that meets the ear"
[Milton].
The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.
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