BEARING FALSE WITNESS Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the phrase bearing false witness. (close relations)
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| perjury | nounn | |||||
noun • criminal offense of making false statements under oath | ||||||
| deceit | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being fraudulent • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving | ||||||
| deceitfulness | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being deceitful | ||||||
| dishonesty | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being dishonest • lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | ||||||
| fabrication | nounn | |||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • writing in a fictional form • the act of making something (a product) from raw materials • the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||
| falsehood | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement • the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | ||||||
| lying | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||
noun • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||
| mendacity | nounn | |||||
noun • the tendency to be untruthful | ||||||
| prevarication | nounn | |||||
noun • a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth • intentionally vague or ambiguous • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||
| untruth | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement | ||||||
| lying under oath | ||||||
noun • criminal offense of making false statements under oath | ||||||
