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  • 111be dishonest — index bear false witness, betray (lead astray), cheat, hoodwink, lie (falsify), mislead, palter …

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  • 112be evasive — index evade (deceive), palter, prevaricate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 113be untruthful — index bear false witness, equivocate, fabricate (make up), lie (falsify), palter, perjure …

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  • 114beg the question — index prevaricate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 115belie — index bear false witness, cloak, deceive, disguise, disprove, fake, falsify, feign, lie ( …

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  • 116cheat — I verb act dishonestly, be cunning, be dishonest, befool, beguile, betray, break faith, commit breach of trust, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, deprive of dishonestly, dissemble, dupe, embezzle, fraudare, ignore ethics, inveigle, lack honesty …

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  • 117circumvent — I verb avoid doing, be cunning, be sly, beguile, bypass, circonvenir, circumscribere, circumvenire, cloak, conceal, confuse, contravene, contrive, counteract, counterwork, cover, deceive, defeat, defraud, delude, devise, disrupt, elude, escape,… …

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  • 118conceal the truth — index cloak, prevaricate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 119concoct — index conceive (invent), contrive, create, feign, forge (produce), frame (construct) …

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  • 120deviate — I verb aberrare, alter course, angle off, be at variance, be different, be distinguished from, be oblique, bear no resemblance, bear off, branch out, break bounds, break the pattern, change direction, clash, clash with, conflict with, contrast,… …

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