| distortion(noun, dishonesty, error, story) |
| misstatement(noun, trick, true, sham) |
| tall tale(noun, expression, informal, true) |
| fable(noun, literature, nonfiction, fantasy) |
| sham(noun, trick, informal, deception) |
| dissimulation(noun, division, dishonesty, fraud) |
| erroneousness(noun, correct, deception, true) |
| fallaciousness(noun, story, falseness, untruth) |
| fraud(noun, deception, dishonesty, story) |
| inveracity(noun, practice, true, dishonesty) |
| myth(noun, literature, mistake, nonfiction) |
| tall story(noun, expression, literature, nonfiction) |
| untruthfulness(noun, line, practice, deception, true) |
| yarn(noun, literature, line, nonfiction) |
| canard(noun, report, line, claim, true) |
| equivocation(noun, line, deception, mistake) |
| exaggeration(noun, fancy, line, embellishment) |
| perjury(noun, practice, true, story) |
| crookedness(noun, dishonesty, treachery, cunning) |
| fakery(noun, trick, sham, con) |