falsehood

falsehood
n
1. lie, fib, untruth, false statement, mendacity, inveracity; fabrication, fiction, make-believe; canard, false story, hoax; false swearing, perjury; exaggeration, distortion, false coloring; perversion, misstatement, misrepresentation, falsification.
2. deception, deceit, deceptiveness, craftiness, artifice; guile, duplicity, trickery; evasion, ambiguity, concealment; untruthfulness, mendaciousness. 39
43. prevarication, equivocation; dissimulation, feigning, dissembling; malingering, faking, pretending.
4. hypocrisy, pharisaism, casuistry, double-talk; double-dealing, two-facedness, dishonesty; perfidy, disloyalty, treachery, bad faith, Judas kiss; lip service, cant, insincerity; cajolery, flattery, false praise.
5. pretense, show, hollowness, fraud, sham; deception, trick, humbug, Inf. flimflam, Inf. flam; counterfeit, imitation, reproduction, fake, Inf. phony.

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  • falsehood — late 13c., falshede, deceitfulness, also a lie, from FALSE (Cf. false) + HOOD (Cf. hood) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • falsehood — ► NOUN 1) the state of being untrue. 2) a lie …   English terms dictionary

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  • falsehood — The OT Decalogue does not contain any prohibition of lying but there are many terms in which the evils of falsehood are denounced. It is a power of sheol, the infernal world (Isa. 28:15) and it is especially represented by idolatry (Jer. 10:14)… …   Dictionary of the Bible

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