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false |
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Barmecidal, Barmecide, Machiavellian,
Tartuffian, Tartuffish, aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected,
airy, all abroad, all off, all wrong, ambidextrous, amiss, apostate, apparent, apparitional, artful, artificial, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, backsliding, baseborn, bastard, beguiling, beside the mark, bogus, brummagem, calculating, canting, catchy, chimeric, chiseling, collusive, concocted, contrary to fact, corrupt,
counterfeit, counterfeited, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning,
deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defective, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory,
dereistic, derelict, deviant,
deviational, deviative, devious, disaffected, dishonest, disloyal, distorted, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, double, doublehearted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, dummy, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faithless, fake, faked, fallacious, false-principled, falsehearted, fantastic, faultful, faulty, feigned, fickle, fictitious, finagling, fishy, flawed, forged,
fraudulent, furtive, goody-goody, goody, guileful, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, holier-than-thou, hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imitation, imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, indirect, inexact, insidious, insincere, invalid, lying, made-up, manufactured, mealymouthed, mendacious, meretricious, misbegotten, miscreated,
misleading, mistaken, mock, not right, not true, not true to, of bad faith, off, off the
track, ostensible, out, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, pharisaic, phony, pietistic, pinchbeck, pious, pseudo, questionable, recreant, renegade,
sanctified, sanctimonious, scheming, seeming, self-contradictory, self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-righteous, sham, sharp, shifty, simulated, slippery, sneaky, snide, sniveling, specious, spectral, spurious, straying, substitute, supposititious, surreptitious, synthetic, traitorous, treacherous, trickish,
tricksy, tricky, trothless, truthless, two-faced, unactual, unctuous, underhand, underhanded, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded, unloyal, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsound, unsteadfast, unsubstantial, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, visionary, wide, wily, wrong
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false front |
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acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, anteriority,
appearance, artificiality, attitudinizing, blazon, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, bravura, brilliancy, camouflage, cheating, cloak, color, coloring, cover, daring, dash, deception, delusion, demonstration, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, domino, dramatics, eclat, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, facade, face, facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false colors, false face, false show, falsity, fanfaronade, feigned belief, feigning, feint, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish,
fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart,
forequarter, foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, front, front elevation, front man, front matter,
front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, gilt, gloss, head, heading, histrionics, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, image, imposture, incognito, insincerity, lap, manifestation, mannerism, mask, masque, masquerade, mere show, meretriciousness, mummery, obverse, ostentation, outward show, pageant, pageantry, parade, playacting, pose, posing,
posture, preface, prefix, pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, protective coloration, prunes and prisms, public image, put-on, putting on airs, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, showing-off,
simulacrum, simulation, smoke screen, speciousness, spectacle, splash, splurge, staginess, stylishness, theatrics, unnaturalness, varnish, vaunt, veil, visor, vizard, vizard mask, window dressing
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false modesty |
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Quakerishness, censoriousness, demureness, demurity, hideboundness, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, stiff-neckedness,
straitlacedness, stuffiness
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false move |
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balk, bevue, false step, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread,
miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step
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false show |
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Prospero, acting, affectation, affectedness, airiness, airs, airs and graces, appearance, artificiality, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing,
cheating, color, coloring,
deception, delusion, delusiveness,
disguise, dissemblance, dissembling,
dissimulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, fallaciousness,
false air, false appearance, false front, false light, falseness, falsity, feigned belief, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, image, immateriality, imposture,
insincerity, magic, magic act,
magic show, magician, mannerism,
masquerade, mere show, meretriciousness, ostentation, outward show, playacting,
pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretense, pretension, pretext, prunes and prisms,
public image, put-on, putting on airs, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, sleight of hand,
sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance,
speciousness, stylishness, unactuality, unnaturalness, unreality, unsubstantiality, varnish, window dressing
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false step |
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balk, bevue, false move, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread,
miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step
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false witness |
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Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar,
equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, falsifier, fibber, fibster, frame-up, frame, habitual liar, liar, mythomaniac, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer,
prevaricator, pseudologist, pseudologue, put-up job, spinner of yarns, storyteller,
yarn spinner, yarner
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Main entries similar to: false
aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, airy, all in the mind, ambidextrous, amiss, apocryphal, apparent, artful, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, bad, baseborn, baseless, bastard, beguiling,
bogus, calculating, canting, catchy, chimerical, chiseling, corrupt, counterfeit, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defective, delusive, derelict, disaffected, dishonest, disingenuous, disloyal, distorted, double, double-dealing, dreamy, dubious, duff, dummy,
errant, erroneous, ersatz, face, factitious, faithless, fake, fallacious, falsehearted, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, faulty, feigned, fickle, fictitious, fishy, flawed, forced, fraudulent, furtive, glossy, goody,
goody-goody, guileful, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, holier-than-thou, hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illogical,
illusive, illusory, imaginary, imitation, improper, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, indirect, inexact, insidious, insincere, insubstantial, invalid, lying, Machiavellian, malicious, mealymouthed, mendacious, misbegotten,
misleading, mistaken, mock, not right, not true, oblique, off, ostensible, out, outward, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric,
phantasmal, phantom, pharisaic, pharisaical, phoney, phony, pietistic, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo, put on, questionable, recreant, sanctified, sanctimonious, scheming, seeming, self-contradictory, self-righteous,
sham, sharp, shifty, simulated, slippery, sneaky, sniveling, sophistic, specious, spectral, spurious, straying, substitute, supposititious, surreptitious,
synthetic, theatrical, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, unctuous, underhanded, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded, unloyal, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unreliable, unscrupulous, unsteadfast, unsubstantial,
untrue, untruthful, visionary, wide, wily, wrong
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