MENDACIOUSNESS Synonyms
There is 0 hypernym of the word mendaciousness. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for MENDACIOUSNESS
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artifice | nounn | |||||||
noun • a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | ||||||||
deceit | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being fraudulent • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving | ||||||||
deceitfulness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being deceitful | ||||||||
deception | nounn | |||||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving • an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | ||||||||
dishonesty | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being dishonest • lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | ||||||||
duplicity | nounn | |||||||
noun • a fraudulent or duplicitous representation • acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | ||||||||
fabrication | nounn | |||||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • writing in a fictional form • the act of making something (a product) from raw materials • the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||||
falsehood | nounn | |||||||
noun • a false statement • the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | ||||||||
falseness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being false or untrue • unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous • the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | ||||||||
feigning | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • pretending with intention to deceive • the act of giving a false appearance | ||||||||
guile | nounn | |||||||
noun • shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception • the quality of being crafty • the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||||||||
lying | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||||
noun • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||||
perjury | nounn | |||||||
noun • criminal offense of making false statements under oath | ||||||||
prevarication | nounn | |||||||
noun • a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth • intentionally vague or ambiguous • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||||
untruthfulness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being untruthful |