| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An untrue declaration: canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. Informal : fish story, tall tale. Slang : whopper. See TRUE. | | VERB: | To make untrue declarations: falsify, fib, forswear, prevaricate. Law : perjure. See TRUE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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