NONTRUTH Synonyms

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)

• 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 misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

• a false statement

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

• a trivial lie

• tell a relatively insignificant lie

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• light informal conversation for social occasions

• a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

• a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

• wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

• 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

• information that is incorrect

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

• tell or spread rumors

• a false statement