Meaning | A misleading falsehood. |
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Synonyms | deceit, deception |
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Narrower | bill of goods | communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept / accept something untrue or undesirable |
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evasion, equivocation | A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth |
exaggeration, overstatement, magnification | making to seem more important than it really is |
facade, window dressing | A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant |
fraudulence, duplicity | A fraudulent or duplicitous representation |
half-truth | A partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead |
humbug, snake oil | communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive |
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling | pretending with intention to deceive / deceive |
snow job | A long / long and elaborate misrepresentation |
subterfuge, blind | Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity |
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery | verbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
Broader | falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
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Spanish | decepción, engaño, fraude, impostura, mentira, tergiversación |
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Catalan | engany, farsa, frau, mentida |
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Verbs | misrepresent | represent falsely |
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misrepresent | tamper, with the purpose of deception |