ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.
lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity,
double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism;
Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness † , quackery;
charlatanism † , charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum † , bumcombe, flam; bam [Slang],
flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy &c (bad faith) 940; il volto sciolto i
pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness &c (dishonesty) 940; artfulness &c (cunning) 702; misstatement &c (error)
495.
V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a lie &c 546; lie, fib; lie
like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness.
misstate, misquote, miscite † , misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort;
put a false construction upon &c (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter,
palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand [Fr.]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the
truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring
upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong;
exaggerate &c 549; blague † .
invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance &c (imagine)
515; cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum;
play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect &c 855; simulate,
pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean
the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors,
sail under false colors; commend the poisoned chalice to the lips [Macbeth]; ambiguas in
vulgum spargere voces [Lat.]; deceive &c 545.
Adj. false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless,
trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow,
sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.
artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish;
Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded,
double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth
tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected &c 855.
collusive, collusory; artful &c (cunning) 702; perfidious &c 940; spurious &c
(deceptive) 545; untrue &c 546; falsified &c v.; covinous.
Adv. falsely &c adj.; a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly &c (cunning) 702.
Phr. blandae mendacia lingua [Lat.]; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus [Lat.]; I give him
joy that's awkward at a lie [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas [Sp.]; O what a
goodly outside falsehood hath [Merchant of Venice].
545. Deception -- N. deception; falseness &c 544; untruth &c 546; imposition,
imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency † ; covin † ; knavery &c (cunning)
702; misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.]; spoof
[Slang].