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  • 51misrepresent — nisrepresent, falsify, belie, garble mean to present or represent something in a manner that is contrary to the truth. Misrepresent usually implies an intent to represent or portray falsely, and therefore may take as its subject not only a person …

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  • 52Falsifiability — Are all swans white? Falsifiability or refutability of an assertion, hypothesis or theory is the logical possibility that it can be contradicted by an observation or the outcome of a physical experiment. That something is falsifiable does not… …

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  • 53counterfeit — coun·ter·feit 1 / kau̇n tər ˌfit/ adj [Middle French contrefait, past participle of contrefaire to imitate, draw, paint, from contre counter + faire to make]: made in imitation of a genuine article (as a document) without authorization and esp.… …

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  • 54fabricate — fab·ri·cate / fa brə ˌkāt/ vb cat·ed, cat·ing vt: to make up (as testimony) with an intent to deceive vi: to make something up with an intent to deceive there was a motive to fabricate Gary Taylor Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam… …

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  • 55lie — / lī/ vi lay / lā/, lain, / lān/, ly·ing: to be sustainable or capable of being maintained: have grounds under the law holding that an action of battery would lie Scott v. Bradford, 606 P.2d 554 (1979) remedies for misrepresentation...will not… …

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  • 56misrepresent — mis·rep·re·sent /mis ˌre pri zent/ vt: to make a misrepresentation about vi: to make a misrepresentation mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tive / ˌre pri zen tə tiv/ adj mis·rep·re·sen·ter n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …

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  • 57misstate — I verb be deceptive, be erroneous, deceive, delude, dissemble, distort, falsify, give a false impression, give a wrong idea, lead astray, lead into error, lie, misguide, misinform, mislead, misreport, misrepresent, pervert, prevaricate, state… …

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  • 58pervert — I verb abuse, canker, contaminate, corrumpere, corrupt, debauch, degenerate, demoralize, depravare, deprave, divert, falsify, infect, lead astray, lower, make corrupt, misapply, mislead, misrepresent, misuse, poison, pollute, prostitute, render… …

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  • 59fake — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. counterfeit, imposture, make believe; impostor. See deception, falsehood. v., informal, pretend, feign; imitate; improvise, wing it (inf.). See unpreparedness, imitation.Ant., real, genuine. II (Roget …

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  • 60lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …

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