All misinformation synonyms

noun misinformation

• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
• spin — to make (yarn) by drawing out, twisting, and winding fibers: Pioneer women spun yarn on spinning wheels.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.