All truthfulness antonyms

noun truthfulness

• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• knowhow — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
• insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
• quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• cant — a salient angle.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
• lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
• kicker — a person or thing that kicks.
• big stick — force or the threat of using force
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• flim-flam — Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
• magic word — Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
• jobbery — the conduct of public or official business for the sake of improper private gain.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• hosing — an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
• breach of faith — a violation of good faith, confidence, or trust; betrayal: To abandon your friends now would be a breach of faith.
• breach of trust — a violation of duty by a trustee or any other person in a fiduciary position
• gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
• cunningness — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
• hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• blow off — If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.