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- Affected & insincere
- Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- Cheating & tricking
- Dishonest
- Dishonest people
- Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
- Faking & pretending
- Honesty, openness & sincerity
- Loyal, faithful & dependable
- Naive & trusting
- Plotting & trapping
- Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- Sly & devious
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Synonyms and related words:
- artifice noun
- bad faith noun
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard noun
- cobbler noun (NONSENSE)
- fiction noun
- flimflam noun
- forked tongue noun
- half-truth noun
- hogwash noun
- lie verb (SPEAK FALSELY)
- mislead verb
- misrepresent verb
- misrepresentation noun
- myth noun (FALSE IDEA)
- mythologize verb
- untruth noun
- weasel words noun
- white lie noun
- whopper noun
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