deception &c 545; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c 454; untruth &c 546;
guile; lying &c v.. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false
swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption†; covin†.
perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri [Lat.];
perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration &c 549;
prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud;
suggestio falsi &c (lie) 546 [Lat.]; mystification &c (concealment)
528; simulation &c (imitation) 19; dissimulation, dissembling; deceit;
blague†.
sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.
lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere
outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant,
humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, organized
hypocrisy; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness†, quackery; charlatanism†,
charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum†, bumcombe, flam; bam [Slang], flimflam,
cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy &c (bad faith) 940; il volto
sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness &c (dishonesty) 940; artfulness &c (cunning) 702;
misstatement &c (error) 495.
V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a
lie &c 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear,
perjure oneself, bear false witness.
misstate, misquote, miscite†, misreport, misrepresent; belie,
falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c
(misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the
understanding; repondre en Normand [Fr.]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince
the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a
gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up,
embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague†.
invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct;
romance &c (imagine) 515; cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make
believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a
part, play a part; affect &c 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit,
sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours,
put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror;
hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors;
commend the poisoned chalice to the lips [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum
spargere voces [Lat.]; deceive &c 545.
Adj. false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest,
faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted;
evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior;
forsworn.
artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical,
pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double
faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing;
Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible;
mealy-mouthed; affected &c 855.
collusive, collusory; artful &c (cunning) 702; perfidious &c 940;
spurious &c (deceptive) 545; untrue &c 546; falsified &c v.; covinous.
Adv. falsely &c adj.; a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly &c
(cunning) 702.
Phr. blandae mendacia lingua [Lat.]; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus
[Lat.]; I give him joy that's awkward at a lie [Young]; la mentira
tiene las piernas cortas [Sp.]; O what a goodly outside falsehood hath
[Merchant of Venice].