barefaced fabrication

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• Lie — For other uses, see Lie (disambiguation) A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others. To lie is to state something with disregard to… …   Wikipedia

• lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …   English dictionary for students

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• whopper — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., informal, shamefaced or barefaced lie. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. Great lie, falsehood, fabrication, a big one*; see lie 1 , story . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. giant *mother of… …   English dictionary for students

• lie — I n 1. falsehood, untruth, prevarication, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, fencing, Euph. departure from the truth; falsity, fiction, falsification, invention, concoction, fabrication, half truth …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• mendacity — n 1. untruthfulness, inveracity, prevarication, equivocation, evasion, truthlessness; falsity, falseness, mendaciousness, deceit, duplicity, deception, dissimulation, crookedness; hypocrisy, disingenuousness, guilefulness, double dealing. 2.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• prevarication — n 1. lie, falsehood, untruth, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, overrefinement, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, shuffling; pettifoggery, hairsplitting, caviling; fencing, evasiveness, elu siveness; chicanery, pretense, artfulness …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• untruth — n 1. untruthfulness, inveracity, falsity, lying, mendacity, truthlessness; erroneousness, fallaciousness, untrueness, misrepresentation; prevarication, perjury, dissimulation; sophistry, casuistry, Jesuitism, subtlety, subreption; deceitfulness,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder