English
Noun
Sense: intentionally false statement
Synonyms
- alternative fact
- anti-fact
- bluff
- bollocks
- bullshit [⇒ thesaurus]
- canard
- cap (AAVE and internet slang)
- chin (UK, slang)
- clanker
- contradiction
- cram (dated, UK, slang)
- disinformation
- fabrication
- [⇒ thesaurus]
- falsification
- fib
- flam
- goof
- hoax
- (obsolete, slang)
- inveracity
- inverity
- jive (dated)
- lie
- mendacity
- misinformation
- mistruth
- nonsense [⇒ thesaurus]
- nontruth
- pork pie (Cockney rhyming slang)
- porker (UK, slang)
- porky (Cockney rhyming slang)
- prevarication
- red flag
- rubbish
- story
- swack-up (dated, UK, slang)
- tall tale
- terminological inexactitude (idiomatic euphemism)
- untruism
- untruth
- whopper
- wisker (archaic, UK, slang)
- yanker (UK, dialect)
- yed (UK, dialect)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “falsehood” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “untruth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “lie” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.