with, cajole, flatter; come over &c. (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c 544.
     cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one’s wits,
play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses &c (steal) 791; conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
     play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
     lie &c 544; misinform &c 538; mislead &c (error) 495; betray &c 940;
be deceived &c 547. 
     Adj. deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702; prestigious|,
prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious[obs3]; deceitful, covinous[obs3]; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus[Lat].
     untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide*, pseudo,
spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.
     artificial, synthetic, ersatz[&German]; simulated &c 544. 
     Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the
left. 
     Phr. “keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope”
[Macbeth]; fronti nulla fides[Lat]; “ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes” [Richard III]; “a quicksand of deceit” [Henry VI]; decipimur specie recti [Lat][Horace]; falsi crimen[Lat]; fraus est celare fraudem[Lat]; lupus in fabula[Lat]; “so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue” [Richard III].

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     #546.  Untruth.—­ N. untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not,
fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle[obs3], whopper; jhuth[obs3].
     forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation;
perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi[Lat]; exaggeration &c 549.
     invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance &c
(imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler’s tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.
     press agent’s yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.
     myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare’s nest,
farce.
     irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation &c
(concealment) 528.
     pretense, pretext; false plea &c 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift,
shuffle, make-believe; sham &c (deception) 545.
     profession, empty words; Judas kiss &c (hypocrisy) 544; disguise &c
(mask) 530. 
     V. have a false meaning. 
     Adj. untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-
foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer’s oaths; unfounded, ben trovato[It], invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory[obs3], illusory; ironical; soi-disant &c (misnamed) 565[Fr]. 
     Phr. se non e vero e ben trovato[It]; “where none is meant that meets
the ear"[Milton].