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