All amphibology synonyms

noun amphibology

• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• waffle — waffling language.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
• tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• hedging — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
• shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• double entendre — a double meaning.
• double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.