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  • 51specious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. plausible, ostensible, apparent, casuistic, insincere; deceptive. See falsehood, imagination.Ant., logical, sincere. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. plausible, credible, colorable, beguiling, deceptive …

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  • 52spurious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. false, counterfeit, sham, specious; bastard, illegitimate. See deception, error, falsehood. Ant., accurate, true. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. counterfeit, apocryphal, deceptive; see artificial 1 ,… …

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  • 53untrue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. false, misleading, specious, lying, hollow, deceptive, delusive, untrustworthy, deceitful, sham, fake, spurious, meretricious, incorrect, prevaricating, dissembling,… …

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  • 54wrong — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. immoral (see wrong); mistaken, unfactual; unsuitable, improper. See error, disagreement. n. evil, harm, injury. See wrong, malevolence. II Deviation from moral right Nouns 1. wrong, wrongfulness …

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  • 55false — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons ] Syn. perfidious, faithless, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, lying, untruthful, base, hypocritical, double dealing, knavish, roguish, malevolent, rascally, scoundrelly, mean, malicious,… …

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  • 56untruthful — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Untrue] Syn. unlikely, fake, fraudulent; see false 1 , 2 . 2. [Dishonest] Syn. insincere, crooked, deceitful; see dishonest 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at dishonest . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lying, dishonest,… …

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  • 57counterfactual — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Devoid of truth: false, specious, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong. See TRUE …

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  • 58Falsehood — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Falsehood >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 falsehood falsehood falseness Sgm: N 1 falsity falsity falsification Sgm: N 1 deception deception &c. 545 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm …

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  • 59faithless — a. 1. Unbelieving. 2. Perfidious, treacherous, false, disloyal, untruthful, truthless …

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  • 60false — a. 1. Untrue, unveracious, mendacious, lying, contrary to truth. 2. Dishonest, perfidious, treacherous, disloyal, faithless, disingenuous, dishonorable, double tongued, double faced, false hearted. 3. Unveracious, mendacious, lying, untrustworthy …

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