untruth
Roget category 546
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.9. Modes of communication
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Untruth
noun
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.
verb
have a false meaning.
adjective
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.
phrase
se non e vero e ben trovato [It] —
where none is meant that meets the ear"
[Milton].
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