misrepresentation (n)
deceit (n)
deception (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def a misleading falsehood
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Hypernym falsehood, falsity, untruth
Derivationally related form deception → deceive
Derivationally related form misrepresentation → misrepresent
Derivationally related form misrepresentation → misrepresent
Hyponym bill of goods; humbug, snake oil; half-truth; facade, window dressing; exaggeration, overstatement, magnification; snow job; pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling; subterfuge, blind; trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery; fraudulence, duplicity; evasion, equivocation
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Hypernym bill of goods; humbug, snake oil; half-truth; facade, window dressing; exaggeration, overstatement, magnification; snow job; pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling; subterfuge, blind; trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery; fraudulence, duplicity; evasion, equivocation
Hyponym falsehood, falsity, untruth
Derivationally related form misrepresent → misrepresentation
Derivationally related form deceive → deception
Derivationally related form misrepresent → misrepresentation

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