What's a Lie?
Lies come in a variety of shapes (“whoppers”), and sizes (“little white lies”). You’ll need a dictionary and an adding machine to collate and count the numbers of Lies you might see on Fox News these days. Here’s a list of some of the more common words and phrases Fox News might disguise as journalism:
- A Lie, noun
A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. - A Falsehood, noun
A false statement; lie.
- A Fib, noun
A small or trivial lie; minor falsehood. , - To Prevaricate, verb (used without object),
To speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
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Bill O’Reilly, proper noun
A person who makes his living making it up as he goes along. -
To Equivocate, verb
To use equivocal language intentionally. -
To Forswear (also foreswear), verb
To renounce or repudiate under oath. - To Perjure, verb
To make (oneself) guilty of perjury by deliberately testifying falsely under oath. - A Liar, noun
One that tells lies. - To Fudge, verb
To fake or falsify: - To Palter, verb
To talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate. - To Beguile, verb
To deceive by guile; delude - To Cozen, verb
To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive. - To Deceive, verb
To cause to believe what is not true; mislead. - To Delude, verb
To deceive the mind or judgment of. - To Dupe, verb
To deceive, esp by trickery; make a dupe or tool of; cheat; fool - To Fool, verb
To deceive or trick; dupe. - To Gull, verb
To fool, cheat, or hoax - A Hoax, noun
An act intended to deceive or trick. - To Hoodwink, verb
To take in by deceptive means; deceive. - To Kid, verb
To mock playfully; tease. - To Snow Job, noun
Slang chiefly US and Canadian an instance of deceiving or overwhelming someone with elaborate often insincere talk - To Take in, verb
To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. - Glenn Beck, proper noun
A person who frequently misreports and distorts the truth - To Trick, verb
To defraud, deceive, or cheat (someone), especially by means of a trick - To Defame, verb
To damage the reputation, character, or good name of by slander or libel. - A Libel, verb
Law to make or publish a defamatory statement or representation about (a person) - Sean Hannity, proper noun
A person who frequently distorts the truth, and dissembles the facts. - Slander, verb
To utter or circulate slander (about) - To Traduce, verb
To cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements. - To Falsify, verb
To state untruthfully; misrepresent. - To Misreport, verb
To report mistakenly or falsely. - Rupert Murdoch, proper noun
A person who pays people who may misinform, mislead or fabricate the facts. - To Misrepresent, verb
To give an incorrect or misleading representation of. - To Misstate, verb
To state wrongly or falsely. - To Distort, verb
To twist out of a proper or natural relation of parts; misshape. - To Garble, verb
To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: - To Dissemble, verb
To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. - To Dissimulate, verb
To disguise (one’s intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance. - To Misguide, verb
To lead or guide in the wrong direction; lead astray. - To Misinform, verb
To provide with incorrect information. - To Mislead, verb
To lead in the wrong direction. - Sarah Palin, proper noun
A person who has a well-developed ability to garble facts. - To Fabricate, verb
To concoct in order to deceive - A Whopper, noun
A gross untruth.