| exaggeration(lie, falsehood, fib) |
| fairy tale(expression, line, lie, story, untruth) |
| fakery(noun, deception, lie, sham, dishonesty) |
| fault(slip, failure, mistake, lapse) |
| feigning(noun, deception, lie, sham, dishonesty) |
| fish story(noun, informal, true) |
| flimflam(noun, dishonesty, treachery, fraud, deceit) |
| gilt |
| glitch(noun, difficulty, slip, failure, fault) |
| gloss |
| hollowness(noun, falseness, inaccuracy, spuriousness) |
| indirection(noun, dishonesty, crookedness, deviousness, craftiness) |
| inexactness(noun, falseness, inaccuracy, erroneousness, hollowness) |
| insidiousness(noun, dishonesty, treachery, fraud, deceit) |
| invention(noun, line, lie, dishonesty, story) |
| misinterpretation(error, inaccuracy, misconception, wrongness, erroneousness) |
| misjudgment(slip, failure, fault, mistake, lapse) |
| mistake(noun, slip, fault, inaccuracy, misconception) |
| myth(lie, dishonesty, story, deceit, untruth) |
| pretense(noun, deception, lie, sham, dishonesty) |