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Synonyms for perjury
noun lying while under oathAntonyms for perjury
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falsehood
noun. lie
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
inveracity
noun. lie
- 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
lie
noun. untruth
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- 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
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
lies
noun. untruth
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- 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
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
trick
noun. deceit
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conspiracy
- conundrum
- cover
- deception
- decoy
- delusion
- device
- disguise
- distortion
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- fraud
- game
- gimmick
- hoax
- illusion
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- maneuver
- perjury
- plot
- ploy
- pretense
- ruse
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- treachery
- wile
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.