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mis representation
noun as in lie
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noun as in misrepresentation
noun as in parody
noun as in pretense
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- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in slander
noun as in story
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noun as in tale
noun as in quackery
noun as in untruth
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noun as in inveracity
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- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
noun as in tall talk
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- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
noun as in tergiversation
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noun as in truthlessness
noun as in untruthfulness
noun as in villainousness
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noun as in corruption
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noun as in deceit
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noun as in distortion
noun as in equivocation
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noun as in exaggeration
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noun as in falsity
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noun as in fib
noun as in fiction
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noun as in fraud
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This was a typical specimen of inquisitorial methods of mis-representation and of evasion—of practical but not open disobedience.
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On this page you'll find 859 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mis-representation, such as: deceit, deception, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, and evasion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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