Synonyms of the word

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.

ambiguity

• n. (countable) Something, particularly words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation,…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.

equivocalness

• n. The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.

equivocation

• n. (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
• n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim…

evasiveness

• n. The quality of being evasive.

fabrication

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

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.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

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.

untruth

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

untruthfulness

• n. The state of being untruthful; dishonesty.