All coverup synonyms

noun coverup

• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
• 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.
• fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• hedging — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• waffle — waffling language.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• double entendre — a double meaning.
• double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
• tall tale — far-fetched story
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• canard — A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• feigning — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• figment — a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion: The noises in the attic were just a figment of his imagination.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
• whopper — WarGames
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• air — Air is the mixture of gases which forms the Earth's atmosphere and which we breathe.
• presence — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
• aspect — An aspect of something is one of the parts of its character or nature.
• bearing — Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.
• carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
• countenance — If someone will not countenance something, they do not agree with it and will not allow it to happen.
• demeanor — Your demeanor is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.