inventing

ADJECTIVE

lying

Synonyms

STRONGEST

misleading

STRONG

dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing equivocating falsifying fibbing misrepresenting misstating prevaricating two-timing wrong

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory false guileful mendacious perfidious shifty treacherous tricky two-faced unreliable untruthful

Antonyms

STRONG

honest

WEAK

direct frank

ADJECTIVE

perjurious

Synonyms

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing equivocating false falsifying fibbing forsworn guileful mendacious misleading misrepresenting misstating perfidious perjured prevaricating shifty treacherous tricky two-faced two-timing unreliable untruthful wrong

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She found herself inventing excuses to try to keep him home at night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Lee also pointed to a Wednesday post on X from Bollinger Capital Management president and founder John Bollinger, best known for inventing the Bollinger Bands technical tools.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

“Together with Corning, we are inventing the future of computing with advanced optical technologies.”

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

AI systems can "hallucinate", inventing plausible but incorrect answers.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Asked to describe and classify mammals, he scribbled down an incomplete and absurd system of taxonomy—omitting categories, inventing others, lumping kangaroos with beavers, and pigs with elephants.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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