All disinformation synonyms

noun disinformation

• hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
• obloquy — censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, especially by numerous persons or by the general public.
• defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
• revilement — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
• libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
• calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
• vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
• whopper — WarGames
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• announcement — An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
• publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
• promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
• brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
• handout — a portion of food or the like given to a needy person, as a beggar.
• advertising — Advertising is the activity of creating advertisements and making sure people see them.
• doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
• promotion — advancement in rank or position.
• inculcation — the act of inculcating, or teaching or influencing persistently and repeatedly so as to implant or instill an idea, theory, attitude, etc.
• implantation — the act of implanting.
• agitprop — Agitprop is the use of artistic forms such as drama or posters to further political aims.
• newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
• proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• white lie — a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib.
• 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.
• cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
• half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
• misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.