| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An erroneous or false idea: erroneousness, error, fallacy, falseness, falsity, untruth. See CORRECT, TRUE. 2. An untrue declaration: canard, cock-and-bull story, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. Informal : fish story, tall tale. Slang : whopper. See TRUE. 3. The practice of lying: inveracity, mendacity, perjury, truthlessness, untruthfulness. See TRUE.
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