1. (noun) a misleading falsehood

• deceit
• deception

2. (noun) a willful perversion of facts

• falsification

1. (noun) a misleading falsehood

• falsehood
• falsity
• untruth

2. (noun) a willful perversion of facts

• actus reus
• misconduct
• wrongdoing
• wrongful conduct

1. (noun) a misleading falsehood

• bill of goods
• blind
• subterfuge
• dissembling
• feigning
• pretence
• pretense
• duplicity
• fraudulence
• equivocation
• evasion
• exaggeration
• magnification
• overstatement
• facade
• window dressing
• half-truth
• hanky panky
• hocus-pocus
• jiggery-pokery
• skulduggery
• skullduggery
• slickness
• trickery
• humbug
• snake oil
• snow job

2. (noun) a willful perversion of facts

• deceit
• deception
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• distortion
• overrefinement
• straining
• torture
• twisting
• equivocation
• tergiversation
• fabrication
• lying
• prevarication

1. (noun) a misleading falsehood

• belie
• misrepresent
• cook
• fake
• falsify
• fudge
• manipulate
• misrepresent
• wangle
• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• lead on

2. (noun) a willful perversion of facts

• alter
• falsify
• interpolate
• cook
• fake
• falsify
• fudge
• manipulate
• misrepresent
• wangle
• distort
• falsify
• garble
• warp
• falsify