deceive β If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
mislead β to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
misrepresent β to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
bs β BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.
beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
bull β A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
delude β If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
dissemble β to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
dissimulate β to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
forswear β to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
frame β a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
fudge β a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
malign β to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
misinform β to give false or misleading information to.
misspeak β Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
misstate β to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
overdraw β to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
perjure β to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
phoney β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
phony β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
plant β any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.
