misstate, misquote, miscite[obs3], misreport, misrepresent; belie,
falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c. (misinterpret)
     prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding;
repondre en Normand[Fr]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
     garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a
gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague[obs3].
     invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct;
romance &c (imagine) 515; cry “wolf!”
     dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe;
play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
     cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put
on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; “commend the poisoned chalice to the lips” [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat]; deceive &c 545. 
     Adj. false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest,
faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.
     artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical;
tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected &c 855.
     collusive, collusory; artful &c. (cunning) 702; perfidious &c 940;
spurious &c (deceptive) 545; untrue &c 546; falsified &c v.; covinous. 
     Adv. falsely &c adj.; a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly &c
(cunning) 702. 
     Phr. blandae mendacia lingua[Lat]; falsus in uno falsus in
omnibus[Lat]; “I give him joy that’s awkward at a lie” [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas [Sp]; “O what a goodly outside falsehood hath” [Merchant of Venice].

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     #545.  Deception. —­ N. deception; falseness &c 544; untruth &c 546;
imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency[obs3]; covin[obs3]; knavery &c. (cunning) 702;
misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.]; spoof*.
     delusion, gullery[obs3]; juggling, jugglery[obs3]; slight of hand,
legerdemain; prestigiation|, prestidigitation; magic &c 992; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie[obs3], jockeyship[obs3]; trickery, coggery|, chicanery; supercherie[obs3], cozenage[obs3], circumvention, ingannation|, collusion; treachery &c 940; practical joke.