All disinformation synonyms

noun disinformation

• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• forgery — the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
• slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• hype — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
• indoctrination — the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view: religious indoctrination.
• publicity — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• 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.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
• circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• treason — the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
• reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.