All lying synonyms
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L l adj lying
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- two-timing — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
- dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- delusive — tending to delude; misleading
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
- treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- two-faced — having two faces.
- unreliable — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
- untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
adjective lying
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- falsifying — Present participle of falsify.
- inventing — Present participle of invent.
noun lying
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
- 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.
- falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.