#falsehood__falsity__untruth__false_statement__falsestatement  a false statement
  exclusion:  #true_statement
  supertype:  #statement  a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
  subtype:  #dodging__dodge__scheme  a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
  subtype:  #lie.falsehood__prevarication  a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
     subtype:  #fib__story__tarradiddle__taradiddle  a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
        subtype:  #cock-and-bull_story__fairytale__fairy_story__fairystory__song_and_dance  an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
     subtype:  #jactitation  a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
     subtype:  #whopper  a gross untruth
     subtype:  #white_lie__whitelie  an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)
  subtype:  #fable__fabrication__fiction  a deliberately false or improbable account
     subtype:  #canard  a deliberately misleading fabrication
  subtype:  #misrepresentation__deceit__deception  a misleading falsehood
     subtype:  #half-truth  a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
     subtype:  #facade.misrepresentation__window_dressing  a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
     subtype:  #overstatement__exaggeration__magnification  making to seem more important than it really is
     subtype:  #snow_job  a long and elaborate misrepresentation
     subtype:  #feigning__pretense__pretence__dissembling  pretending with intention to deceive
        subtype:  #bluff.feigning  pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; "his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted"
        subtype:  #pretext__stalking-horse  something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
           subtype:  #putoff  a pretext for delay or inaction
        subtype:  #lip_service__hypocrisy  an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
     subtype:  #subterfuge__blind  something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
     subtype:  #trickery__hocus-pocus__hocuspocu__slickness__slicknes__hankypanky__jiggery-pokery__jiggerypokery__skulduggery__skullduggery  verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
     subtype:  #duplicity__fraudulence  a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
     subtype:  #evasion.misrepresentation__equivocation  a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
        subtype:  #indirect_expression__circumlocution  an indirect way of expressing something
        subtype:  #doublespeak  any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
        subtype:  #hedge__hedging  an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"
        subtype:  #quibble  an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
  subtype:  #contradiction_in_terms__contradiction  (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
     subtype:  #paradox  (logic) a self-contradiction; "I always lie"

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