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Synonyms for lying
adj dishonest- misleading
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- falsifying
- fibbing
- inventing
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- prevaricating
- two-timing
- wrong
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- false
- guileful
- mendacious
- perfidious
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- unreliable
- untruthful
Antonyms for lying
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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More words related to lying
Pecksniffian
adjective. hypocritical
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
crooked
adjective. evil, corrupt
deceitful
adjective. dishonest, insincere
- artful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hypocritical
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wily
deception
noun. misleading; being dishonest
- beguilement
- betrayal
- blarney
- boondoggle
- cheat
- circumvention
- cozenage
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- deceitfulness
- deceptiveness
- defraudation
- dirt
- disinformation
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- equivocation
- falsehood
- fast one
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hokum
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- insincerity
- juggling
- legerdemain
- lying
- mendacity
- pretense
- prevarication
- snow job
- sophism
- treachery
- treason
- trickery
- trickiness
- trumpery
- untruth
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.