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

lie &c 544; misinform &c 538; mislead &c (error) 495; betray &c 940; be deceived
&c 547.
Adj. deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702; prestigious † , prestigiatory † ;
deceptive, deceptious † ; deceitful, covinous † ; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive,
insidious, ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].
untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo,
spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped,
fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated,
sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel,
pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.
artificial, synthetic, ersatz [G.]; simulated &c 544.
Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the left.
Phr. keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope [Macbeth]; fronti nulla
fides [Lat.]; ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes [Richard III]; a quicksand of
deceit [Henry VI]; decipimur specie recti [Lat.] [Horace]; falsi crimen [Lat.]; fraus est
celare fraudem [Lat.]; lupus in fabula [Lat.]; so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of
virtue [Richard III].
546. Untruth -- N. untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer,
taradiddle † , whopper; jhuth † .
forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion,
falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi [Lat.]; exaggeration &c 549.
invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance &c (imagination) 515;
absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing
devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and
bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.
press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.
myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.
irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation &c (concealment) 528.
pretense, pretext; false plea &c 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe;
sham &c (deception) 545.
profession, empty words; Judas kiss &c (hypocrisy) 544; disguise &c (mask) 530.
V. have a false meaning.
Adj. untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive,
far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato [It], invented, fabulous,
fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory † , illusory;
ironical; soi-disant &c (misnamed) 565 [Fr.].
Phr. se non e vero e ben trovato [It]; where none is meant that meets the ear [Milton].
547. Dupe -- N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche † , cull [Slang], cully † , victim, pigeon,
April fool † ; jay [Slang], sucker [Slang]; laughingstock &c 857; Cyclops, simple Simon,
flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat's paw.
V. be deceived &c 545, be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the
bait; bite, catch a Tartar.
Adj. credulous &c 486; mistaken &c (error) 495.