What is another word for falsehood?
234 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ f_ˈɒ_l_s_h_ʊ_d], [ fˈɒlshʊd], [ fˈɒlshʊd]Table of Contents
Similar words for falsehood:- act (noun)
- communication (noun)
- deception (noun)
- dishonesty (noun)
- duplicity (noun)
- erroneousness (noun)
- error (noun)
- exaggeration (noun)
- fable (noun)
- fabrication (noun)
- fallacy (noun)
- false colors (noun)
- falsehood (noun)
- false impression (noun)
- false statement (noun)
- falsity (noun)
- fib (noun)
- fiction (noun)
- figment (noun)
- perjury (noun)
- rumor (noun)
- story (noun)
- tall talk (noun)
- trick (noun)
- underhandedness (noun)
- untruth (noun)
- untruthfulness (noun)
- whopper (noun)
- other synonyms
Definition for Falsehood:
- The quality of being false; want of truth; want of honesty; deceitfulness; false appearance; imposture; an untrue assertion; a lie.
Synonyms for Falsehood:
n.
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- a tissue of lies,
- true.
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- correct.
- boondoggles,
- fast one,
- prevarication,
- hypocrisy,
- fraudulence,
- double-dealing,
- trumpery,
- duplicity,
- Double dealing,
- beguilements,
- dupery,
- beguilement,
- Defraudation,
- cunnings,
- dissimulation,
- cozenage,
- deceptiveness,
- boondoggle.
- Improbity,
- Hanky Panky,
- infidelity,
- infamy,
- fourberie,
- insidiousness,
- Hocuspocus,
- chicanes,
- criminality,
- sharp practice,
- chicane,
- criminalities,
- wiliness,
- indirection,
- unscrupulousness,
- perfidy.
- twofacedness,
- dis-semblances,
- dirty dealings,
- one upmanship,
- stab back,
- oneupmanship,
- two facedness,
- dis-semblance,
- dis semblance,
- dis semblances,
- twonesses,
- judas kisses.
- slip,
- inaccuracy,
- misconstruction,
- misconception,
- miscalculation,
- Misjudgment,
- misestimation,
- gaffe,
- mistake,
- typo,
- flaw,
- aberration,
- misprint,
- oversight,
- fault,
- defect,
- distortion,
- blunder.
- overemphasises,
- exaltation,
- extravagance,
- overemphasis,
- romance,
- hogwash,
- Hyperbolism,
- tall talk,
- elaboration,
- overestimation,
- tall story.
- quibblings,
- in exactness,
- faultinesses,
- in-consistency,
- in consistencies,
- mis-interpretation,
- in-validity,
- inexactnesses,
- pre conception,
- in-exactness,
- misconstruals,
- in consistency,
- pre conceptions,
- in-consistencies,
- pre-conception,
- mis-interpretations,
- pre-conceptions,
- mis takes,
- mis interpretations,
- mis take,
- in-validities,
- mis interpretation,
- non sequiturs,
- in-exactnesses,
- mis-take,
- in validity,
- mis-takes,
- in validities,
- in exactnesses.
- un-realities,
- un realities,
- uncandidnesses,
- un candidnesses,
- un-candidness,
- dis ingenuousnesses,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- un-candidnesses,
- dis ingenuousness,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- un candidness,
- un-faithfulness,
- un reality,
- un-faithfulnesses,
- un-reality,
- un faithfulness,
- un faithfulnesses.
- work imagination,
- storytellings,
- figment imagination,
- terminological inexactitudes,
- cliff hanger,
- cliff hangers,
- cliff-hangers.
- back-fence talks,
- dis-patches,
- backfence talk,
- earfuls,
- backfence talks,
- back fence talks,
- dis patch,
- back fence talk,
- dis patches,
- dis-patch.
- malarkey,
- baloney,
- balderdash,
- rubbish,
- rot.
Other synonyms:
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- disinformation,
- phantom,
- cardboard cut-out,
- misinformation,
- simulation,
- cock-and-bull story,
- hokum,
- snow job,
- canard,
- half-truth,
- mirage,
- white lie,
- simulacrum,
- Phantasm,
- fish story,
- optical illusion,
- phantasmagoria.
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- bs,
- tall tale,
- bull,
- cover story,
- flannel,
- bluff,
- fraud,
- apparition,
- perjury,
- pretense.
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- sham,
- concoction.
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- fancy.
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- put on.
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- cover.
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- line.
Paraphrases for Falsehood:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
untruth.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
false.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
misrepresentation, lie, deceit.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
falseness, dishonesty, fallacy, forgery, deception, fake, fabrication, mendacity.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Falsehood:
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n.
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communication
truth.
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lie
non-fiction, truthfulness, reality, uprightness, frankness, honesty, openness.
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Other antonyms:
guilelessness, reliability, good faith, correctness, probity, confirmation, truism, genuineness, objectivity, substantiation, integrity, factualness, sincerity, actuality, simplicity, authentication, credibility, candidness, honor, straightforwardness, authenticity, validation, accuracy, verification, incorruptibility, plainspokenness, veraciousness, reliableness, trustworthiness, dependability.
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communication
Falsehood Sentence Examples:
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This was a falsehood.
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He began his speech to Major Gladwyn, with the glaring falsehood that he and his people had always been friends of the English.
Homophones for Falsehood:
- flow sheet, flush it, flight, falcate, flecked, fulgid, flake out, fleshed out, flaccidity, foul shot, flyswat, falsity, foliaged, fly sheet, flighted, false teeth, fabulist, follow suit, fluctuate, false oat, flighty, flaccid, flaxseed, flesh out, folic acid, flushed, flag day, felicity, Filicide, Felis Wiedi, felicitate, flyweight, falsetto.
Hypernym for Falsehood:
n.
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act
frame-up, forgery, setup, sophistication.
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communication
scheme, deception, dodge, contradiction in terms, contradiction, fable, dodging, fiction, prevarication, lie, misrepresentation, deceit, fabrication.
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act
Hyponym for Falsehood:
n.
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act
knavery, dishonesty.
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communication
statement.
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act
