Synonyms of the word

deceit

• n. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
• n. An act of deceiving someone.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
• n. (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or…

deception

• n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

dishonesty

• n. (uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
• n. (countable) An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.

dissembling

• n. The action of the verb dissemble.
• v. present participle of dissemble.

dissimulation

• n. The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
• n. Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

falsehood

• n. (uncountable) The property of being false.
• n. (countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
• n. (archaic, rare) Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.

falsification

• n. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something…
• n. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
• n. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

falsity

• n. (countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
• n. (uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.

fraudulence

• n. The condition of being fraudulent.

misrepresentation

• n. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as,…
• n. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of…
• n. In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different…

untruth

• n. A lie or falsehood.
• n. The condition of being false; truthlessness.