MENDACITY Synonyms

• the quality of being deceitful

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• 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

• 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

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• 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

• the state of being false or untrue

• a false statement

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

• position or manner in which something is situated

• be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

• be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

• originate (in)

• be and remain in a particular state or condition

• tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

• have a place in relation to something else

• assume a reclining position

• criminal offense of making false statements under oath

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• a false statement