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Mendacious

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

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False 84% connected

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

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False 84% connected

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

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Untruthful 84% connected

Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.

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Untruthful 84% connected

Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.

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Mendacity 74% connected

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

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Mendacity 74% connected

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

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Ambuscade verb · 78% connection

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…

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Argument noun · 78% connection

a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…

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Argumentation noun · 78% connection

a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…

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Belie noun · 78% connection

To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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Blague noun · 78% connection

Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

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Call noun · 78% connection

the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

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Cheat noun · 78% connection

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Cog verb · 78% connection

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.

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Colour noun · 78% connection

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity";…

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Conoid noun · 78% connection

A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve,…

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Contraries noun · 78% connection

Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of…

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Creticism noun · 78% connection

Falsehood; lying; cretism.

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Cretism noun · 78% connection

A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.

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Discern verb · 78% connection

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

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Enemy noun · 78% connection

One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a pe…

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Evidence noun · 78% connection

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…

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Fable noun · 78% connection

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

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Fabrication noun · 78% connection

That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

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