Exact Match:
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- mendacious
collapse - intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement" related words >
- untruthful
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- not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person" related words >
- artful,
- calculating,
- crafty,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- forsworn,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- insincere,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- roguish,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- truthless,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- unveracious,
- wrong
- abandoned,
- abjured,
- artful,
- calculating,
- ceded,
- contemned,
- crafty,
- deceitful,
- declined,
- declined with thanks,
- denied,
- despised,
- disapproved,
- discarded,
- discounted,
- disdained,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dismissed,
- disowned,
- dispensed with,
- disposed of,
- equivocal,
- excepted,
- excluded,
- falsehearted,
- forgone,
- ignored,
- insincere,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- not considered,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- rebuffed,
- recanted,
- refused,
- rejected,
- released,
- relinquished,
- renounced,
- repudiated,
- repulsed,
- retracted,
- sacrificed,
- scheming,
- scouted,
- spurned,
- surrendered,
- truthless,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- waived,
- yielded
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- disingenuous
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- not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" related words >
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- calculating,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- designing,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feigned,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- left-handed,
- mealymouthed,
- oblique,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perjured,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- plotting,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- slick,
- sly,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- tongue in cheek,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- calculating
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- used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- chiseling,
- circumspect,
- collusive,
- computational,
- computative,
- computing,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- considerate,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- designing,
- devious,
- discreet,
- disingenuous,
- enumerative,
- estimating,
- estimative,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intriguing,
- knowing,
- manipulative,
- numerative,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- quantifying,
- safe,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- statistical,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- wary,
- wily
- lying
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- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth related words >
- accubation,
- accumbency,
- accumbent,
- couchancy,
- couchant,
- couche,
- crawling,
- credibility gap,
- debasement,
- deceit,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- decumbency,
- decumbent,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- depression,
- dishonest,
- dishonesty,
- draped,
- duplicitous,
- duplicity,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- flat,
- forsworn,
- groveling,
- hypocritical,
- knavish,
- loll,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lowness,
- lying down,
- mendacious,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- misleading,
- mythomania,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- perjury,
- prevaricating,
- prevarication,
- procumbent,
- prone,
- proneness,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- pseudology,
- reclination,
- reclining,
- recumbency,
- recumbent,
- repose,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- roguish,
- shifty,
- shortness,
- sprawl,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- squatness,
- squattiness,
- stumpiness,
- subjacency,
- supine,
- supineness,
- treacherous,
- truthless,
- truthlessness,
- untruthful,
- untruthfulness,
- unveracious,
- unveraciousness,
- wrong
- crafty
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- marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- tidy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- untrue
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- not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
- not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- capricious,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disaffected,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disloyal,
- disregardful,
- distorted,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fickle,
- flawed,
- forsworn,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hypocritical,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- in error,
- inaccurate,
- inattentive,
- inconstant,
- incorrect,
- inexact,
- inobservant,
- insincere,
- misleading,
- mistaken,
- negligent,
- nonadherent,
- noncompliant,
- nonconforming,
- nonobservant,
- not right,
- not true,
- not true to,
- of bad faith,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- recreant,
- self-contradictory,
- specious,
- straying,
- substandard,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- trothless,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- undependable,
- unfactual,
- unfaithful,
- unfounded,
- unloyal,
- unobservant,
- unorthodox,
- unprecise,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- unsound,
- unsteadfast,
- untrustworthy,
- wide,
- wrong
- artful
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- marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- facile,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- oily,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- deceitful
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- intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- counterfeit,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hypocritical,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knavish,
- knowing,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- roguish,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- dishonest
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- deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
- lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable related words >
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- casuistic,
- cheating,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- cronk,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defrauding,
- devious,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- snide,
- suspicious,
- swindling,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unfrank,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unserious,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- insincere
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- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- ambidextrous,
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- artificial,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calculating,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- colorable,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- evasive,
- fair-spoken,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- gushing,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- lying,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- pharisaic,
- philosophistic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plausible,
- pretentious,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- self-righteous,
- shifty,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stagy,
- sycophantic,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily
- equivocal
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- uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
- open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
- open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson related words >
- agnostic,
- amalgamated,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibolic,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- blended,
- borderline,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- circumlocutory,
- clear as mud,
- clouded,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- conglomerate,
- dappled,
- dicey,
- dishonest,
- disreputable,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- enigmatical,
- equivocatory,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- fickle,
- fifty-fifty,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- half-and-half,
- hazy,
- hedging,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heterogeneous,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- irresolute,
- jumbled,
- lying,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mendacious,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- misleading,
- mixed,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- oblique,
- obscure,
- open,
- open to question,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- patchy,
- perjured,
- perplexing,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- prevaricating,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- roundabout,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- skeptical,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- syncretic,
- tenebrous,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- thrown together,
- touch-and-go,
- truthless,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undivinable,
- unforeseeable,
- unintelligible,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unsure,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- varied,
- waffling,
- wavering,
- weasel-worded,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- cabal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusion,
- collusive,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiracy,
- conspiring,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deep-laid plot,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- engineering,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- frame-up,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- game,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- nefarious,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- politic,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-up job,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- serpentine,
- setup,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stacked deck,
- stealthy,
- stratagem,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underplot,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- web of intrigue,
- wily,
- wire-pulling
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