| trumped-up story(expression, story, tale) |
| deception(noun, sham, story, untruth) |
| equivocation(noun, line, deception, sham) |
| evasiveness(line, story, falsity, untruth) |
| inveracity(noun, true) |
| yarn(noun, literature, line, deception, account) |
| misstatement(noun, deception, true, sham) |
| work(noun, piece, copy, arrangement) |
| smoke(noun, literature, informal, nonfiction) |
| dissimulation(deception, sham, story, falsity) |
| distortion(noun, deception, sham, story) |
| error(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |
| fakery(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |
| fallacy(deception, sham, story, invention) |
| falseness(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |
| feigning(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |
| fibbery(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |
| fraud(deception, sham, story, untruth) |
| half truth(noun, expression, deception, sham) |
| hogwash(noun, deception, sham, dishonesty) |