Thesaurus:lie
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: intentionally false statement
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- alternative fact
- anti-fact
- bluff
- bollocks
- bullshit [⇒ thesaurus]
- canard
- cap (AAVE and internet slang)
- chin (UK, slang)
- clanker
- contradiction
- cram (dated, UK, slang)
- disinformation
- fabrication
- falsehood [⇒ thesaurus]
- falsification
- fib
- flam
- goof
- hoax
- hummer (obsolete, slang)
- inveracity
- inverity
- jive (dated)
- lie
- mendacity
- misinformation
- mistruth
- nonsense [⇒ thesaurus]
- nontruth
- pork pie (Cockney rhyming slang)
- porker (UK, slang)
- porky (Cockney rhyming slang)
- prevarication
- rubbish
- swack-up (dated, UK, slang)
- tall tale
- terminological inexactitude (idiomatic euphemism)
- untruism
- untruth
- whopper
- wisker (archaic, UK, slang)
- yanker (UK, dialect)
- yed (UK, dialect)
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Meronyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “falsehood” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “untruth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “lie” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.