4
misrepresent(verb, promote, fake, alter, deceive)
4
myth(noun, literature, lie, nonfiction, fantasy)
4
promote(verb, fake, plant, tell, alter)
4
untruthfulness(noun, deception, lie, sham, story)
3
baloney(noun, untruth)
3
crock(noun, literature, trick, lie, sham)
3
deceive
3
evasiveness(noun, lie)
3
fallacy(noun, cover, line, trick, deception)
3
falsification
3
flam
3
hogwash(noun, trick, deception, lie, sham)
3
line(noun, cover, informal, deception, lie)
3
little white lie(expression, idiom)
3
misspoke
3
misstatement(noun, deception, true, lie, sham)
3
plant(verb, promote, fake, tell, deceive)
3
stretch the truth(verb, expression, idiom, tell)
2
account
2
balderdash(noun, untruth)
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