noun
1. a misleading falsehood (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑deceive (for: ↑deception), ↑misrepresent
• Hyponyms:
↑bill of goods, ↑humbug, ↑snake oil, ↑half-truth, ↑facade, ↑window dressing, ↑exaggeration, ↑overstatement, ↑magnification, ↑snow job, ↑pretense, ↑pretence, ↑feigning, ↑dissembling, ↑subterfuge, ↑blind, ↑trickery, ↑hocus-pocus, ↑slickness, ↑hanky panky, ↑jiggery-pokery, ↑skulduggery, ↑skullduggery, ↑fraudulence, ↑duplicity, ↑evasion, ↑equivocation
2. a willful perversion of facts
• Syn: ↑falsification
• Derivationally related forms: ↑falsify (for: ↑falsification)
• Hypernyms: ↑wrongdoing, ↑wrongful conduct, ↑misconduct, ↑actus reus
• Hyponyms:
↑distortion, ↑overrefinement, ↑straining, ↑torture, ↑twisting, ↑equivocation, ↑tergiversation, ↑lying, ↑prevarication, ↑fabrication, ↑deception, ↑deceit, ↑dissembling, ↑dissimulation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.