a misleading falsehood
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| deception |
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| misrepresentation |
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lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hyponym
bill of goods
humbug, snake oil
half-truth
facade, window dressing
exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
snow job
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
subterfuge, blind
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
fraudulence, duplicity
evasion, equivocation
hypernym