#misrepresentation__deceit__deception  a misleading falsehood
  supertype:  falsehood__falsity__untruth__false_statement__falsestatement  a false statement
  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

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