Synonyms of the word lying


LYINGFABRICATION - FALSIFICATION - MENDACIOUS - PREVARICATION - UNTRUTHFUL

lying

  • v. present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).
  • n. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • v. present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).
  • n. An act of telling a lie or falsehood.

fabrication

  • n. (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture.
  • n. (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.

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.

mendacious

  • adj. (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
  • adj. (of a statement, etc) False or untrue.

prevarication

  • n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
  • n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

untruthful

  • adj. Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
  • adj. Pertaining to falsehood; corrupt; dishonest.

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