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  • 31mendacious — I adjective artful, clever in deception, collusive, concocted, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, devoid of truth, dishonest, distorted, embroidered, fabricated, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fraudulent, given to lying …

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  • 32oblique — I (evasive) adjective ambivalent, backhanded, circuitous, circumlocutory, cloaked, concealed, devious, disingenuous, elusive, elusory, equivocal, equivocating, furtive, indeterminate, indirect, inexact, lacking clarity, prevaricating, recondite,… …

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  • 33untrue — I adjective apocryphal, contrary to fact, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, disingenuous, disloyal, disobedient, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsus, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, groundless, hypocritical …

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  • 34dishonest — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, ambidextrous, amoral, artful, bent, casuistic, cheating, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, cronk, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defrauding,… …

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  • 35equivocal — Synonyms and related words: agnostic, amalgamated, ambagious, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, amphibolic, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic, blended, borderline, capricious, chancy, changeable, circumlocutory, clear as mud, clouded,… …

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  • 36evasive — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest,… …

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  • 37forsworn — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, abjured, artful, calculating, ceded, contemned, crafty, deceitful, declined, declined with thanks, denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dishonest, disingenuous, dismissed,… …

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  • 38lying — Synonyms and related words: accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, credibility gap, debasement, deceit, deceitful, deceptive, decumbency, decumbent, delusive, delusory, depression, dishonest, dishonesty, draped …

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  • 39mendacious — Synonyms and related words: deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless, untruthful, unveracious, wrong …

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  • 40perjured — Synonyms and related words: artful, calculating, crafty, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, falsehearted, forsworn, insincere, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, scheming, truthless, uncandid, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful,… …

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