| fairy tale(expression, idiom, line, story) |
| canard(noun, report, line, deception, belief) |
| exaggeration(noun, fancy, line, falsehood) |
| falsity(noun, line, deception, sham) |
| mendacity(noun, line, deception, sham) |
| misstatement(noun, trick, deception, sham) |
| opus(noun, invention, untruth, handiwork) |
| tall story(noun, expression, literature, nonfiction) |
| tall tale(noun, expression, deception, sham) |
| equivocation(noun, line, deception, sham) |
| evasiveness(noun, line, story, falsity) |
| line(noun, work, produce, informal, deception) |
| sham(noun, fake, trick, copy, deception) |
| work(noun, produce, device, stock) |
| artifact(noun, work, produce, device) |
| deception(fake, trick, counterfeit, sham) |
| fairy story(noun, expression, idiom, fantasy) |
| dissimulation(trick, deception, sham, con) |
| distortion(noun, deception, sham, story) |
| fakery(noun, trick, deception, sham) |