Englishfalsehood
noun
1 this is an exaggeration if not a downright falsehood:
lie, fib, untruth, false statement, falsification, fabrication, invention, piece of fiction, fiction, story, yarn, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, cock and bull story, flight of fancy, figment of the imagination;
barefaced lie, (little) white lie, half truth, departure from the truth, alternative fact, red herring;
informal tall story, tall tale, fairy story, fairy tale, whopper;
British, informal porky, porky pie, pork pie;
humorous terminological inexactitude.
▷antonyms truth.
2 no one has accused me of falsehood before:
lying, mendacity, untruthfulness, fibbing, fabrication, invention, perjury, perfidy, perfidiousness, lack of veracity, telling stories, misrepresentation, prevarication, equivocation;
deceit, deception, deceitfulness, pretense, artifice, falseness, two-facedness, double-dealing, double-crossing, dissimulation, treachery;
Irish, informal codology;
informal kidology.
▷antonyms truthfulness, honesty.