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Synonyms for prevaricating
verb deceive; stretch the truthAntonyms for prevaricating
- be honest
- confront
- face
- meet
- order
- tell truth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
lying
adjective. dishonest
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
mendacious
adjective. dishonest
perjurious
adjective. lying under oath
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
truthless
adjective. not true
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
untrue
adjective. dishonest
- apocryphal
- cheating
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.