- prevarication
- n1. lie, falsehood, untruth, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, overrefinement, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, shuffling; pettifoggery, hairsplitting, caviling; fencing, evasiveness, elu-siveness; chicanery, pretense, artfulness, guile, Inf. flimflammery.2. falsity, fiction, falsification, invention, concoction, fabrication; half-truth, stretching or distortion or perversion of the truth; story, trumped-up story, tale, fairy tale, fable, myth, romance; exaggeration, overstatement, coloring, magnification, enlargement, yarn, Inf. tall tale or story, Inf. cock-and-bull story, Inf. shaggy dog story, Inf. fish story; nonsense, Inf. claptrap.3. counterfeiting, faking, shamming, falsifying; misrepresentation, corruption, inaccuracy; misconstruction, subterfuge, deceptiveness, false coloring, falseness, deception, slanting, straining, torturing; canard, rumor, hoax, forgery; monstrous lie, the big lie, Sl. whopper, Sl. barefaced lie; perjury* foreswearing, false swearing, defamation, slander, traducement, calumny, calumniation.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.