falsehood
I
noun
canard, commentum, deception, dissimulation, distortion, distortion of truth, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, false assertion, false statement, falsification, falsity, falsum, fiction, flam, fraud, fraudulence, inaccuracy, intentional misstatement, invention, inveracity, lie, mendacium, misrepresentation, misstatement, nonconformity to fact, perversion of truth, pretense, pretext, prevarication, story, tale, untrue declaration, untruth
foreign phrases:
- Lex punit mendacium. — The law punishes mendacity
II
index
canard, counterfeit, deceit, deception, dishonesty, fake, false pretense, fiction, figment, improbity, indirection (deceitfuiness), libel, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, perjury, pretense (pretext), subreption, subterfuge
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006