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41devoid of truth — I adjective corrupt, criminal, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, fallacious, false, falsehearted, forsworn, fraudulent, immoral, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, perfidious, perjured, shameless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unethical …
42feigned — I adjective apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, disguised, dishonest, disingenuous, evasive, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, hypocritical, illusory, imaginary …
43insincere — I adjective artificial, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, disreputable, dissembling, dissimulating, evasive, faithless, false, false league, fraudulent, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illusive, lying, mendacious,… …
44lying — pres part of lie Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. lying I …
45untrue — I adjective apocryphal, contrary to fact, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, disingenuous, disloyal, disobedient, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsus, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, groundless, hypocritical …
46dishonest — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. false, untrustworthy, deceitful, cheating, fraudulent, crooked. See falsehood, improbity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not honest] Syn. deceiving, lying, untruthful, double dealing, deceitful,… …
47false — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons ] Syn. perfidious, faithless, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, lying, untruthful, base, hypocritical, double dealing, knavish, roguish, malevolent, rascally, scoundrelly, mean, malicious,… …
48lying — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of lying] Syn. untruthful, falsifying, prevaricating, swearing falsely, committing perjury, fibbing, misstating, misrepresenting, inventing, dissimuLating, equivocating, malingering. Ant. frank*, truthful,… …
49untruthful — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Untrue] Syn. unlikely, fake, fraudulent; see false 1 , 2 . 2. [Dishonest] Syn. insincere, crooked, deceitful; see dishonest 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at dishonest . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lying, dishonest,… …
50mendacity — (n.) tendency to lie, 1640s, from M.Fr. mendacité and directly from L.L. mendacitas falsehood, mendacity, from L. mendax lying; a liar (see MENDACIOUS (Cf. mendacious)) …
