Falsehood, Pretense, and Exaggeration

• adulterate
• affected
• apocrypha
• apostasy
• audacity
• backhanded
• baloney
• belie
• bend
• big lie
• bill of goods
• bogus
• brown-nose
• bull
• bum rap
• bum steer
• butter up
• by hook or by crook
• cajole
• calumny
• canard
• cant
• careerism
• castle in the air
• charade
• chimerical
• cock-and-bull story
• contrive
• cook the books
• cop out
• coquetry
• counterfeit
• cozen
• cozy up
• crocodile tears
• crooked
• cry wolf
• defamation
• delude
• dirt
• dirty pool
• dishonesty
• disloyalty
• distortion
• doctor
• double-talk
• duplicity
• elusion
• embellish
• equivocation
• evasion
• exaggeration
• exorbitant
• extravagance
• fabricate
• façade
• facsimile
• fairy tale
• fake
• fallacy
• false
• false front
• falsehood
• falsify
• fast and loose
• fast-talk
• Fata Morgana
• feign
• fib
• fictitious
• fish story
• fishy
• flannelmouthed
• fob off
• foist
• tool’s paradise
• forgery
• frame
• fudge
• funny money
• gammon
• gilding
• gin
• glad hand
• gloss
• goldbrick
• gossip
• guise
• half-truth
• hokum
• hook
• huckster
• humbug
• hype
• hyperbole
• hypocrisy
• illusion
• illusory
• imitation
• impersonation
• impostor
• indirect
• inflation
• jive
• lay it on
• levant
• libel
• lie
• line
• lip service
• lowball
• magnify
• make believe
• malinger
• mealy-mouthed
• mendacity
• mirage
• mislead
• misrepresent overdo
• overreach
• overstate
• pass off
• perjury
• phantom
• phony
• pipe dream
• piracy
• plagiarize
• playact
• post
• pretend
• pretender
• pretense
• pretext
• prevaricate
• prodigal
• pseudo
• pull someone’s leg
• put on
• put something over on
• quasi
• questionable
• razzmatazz
• recant
• recreant
• red herring
• ringer
• razorback
• scalp
• seduction
• shadowy
• shady deal
• shifty
• shuck and jive
• shuffle
• simulation
• slander
• snare
• so-called
• soi-distant
• sophistry
• spoof
• spurious
• story
• stretch
• suborn
• subreption
• sweet talk
• synthetic
• tale
• tall tale
• tall talk
• tampering
• tergiversation
• tortuous
• traduce
• trap
• trifle
• trump up
• two-time
• untruth
• veneer
• warp
• wheedle
• whiffle
• whole cloth
• whopper
• window dressing
• yarn