Falsehood

Irina E. (Colombia)
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  1. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  2. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  3. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  4. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  5. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  6. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  7. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  8. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  9. feigned
    not genuine
  10. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  11. mendacious
    given to lying
  12. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  13. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  14. specious
    plausible but false
  15. spurious
    plausible but false
Created on Tue May 04 19:09:22 EDT 2010

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