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stretching the truth
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Present participle for to knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court
Present participle for to tell lies or untruths
Present participle for to speak in a manner that is exaggerated and typically not sincere
Present participle for to talk extravagantly and imaginatively about
Present participle for to give an impression of greater importance than is justified
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Verb
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Present participle for to knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court
perjuring
fabricating
prevaricating
falsifying
equivocating
deceiving
lying
deluding
misleading
tricking
forswearing
committing perjury
bearing false witness
swearing falsely
lying under oath
Verb
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Present participle for to tell lies or untruths
prevaricating
lying
fibbing
misrepresenting
deceiving
misstating
conning
exaggerating
dissembling
fabricating
falsifying
fudging
misspeaking
distorting
dissimulating
equivocating
pretending
paltering
perjuring
telling stories
telling untruths
telling a lie
departing from the truth
making up a story
forswearing oneself
not telling the truth
inventing a story
telling a terminological inexactitude
faking
feigning
inventing
concocting
jiving
kidding
planting
trumping up
making up
telling a fib
creating fiction
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
pulling someone's leg
misleading
deluding
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misguiding
beguiling
duping
tricking
bulling
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
giving the wrong impression
lacking candor
forging
fooling
misdirecting
bamboozling
snookering
suckering
cozening
buffaloing
burning
sucking in
doing a number on
faking out
taking for a ride
leading on
taking in
leading up the garden path
simulating
hatching
scamming
disinforming
telling untruth
swindling
bilking
hosing
counterfeiting
shafting
inveigling
cheating
hornswoggling
gaffing
creating out of thin air
defrauding
outfoxing
having
humbugging
spoofing
propagandizing
US
gammoning
juggling
coining
betraying
mousetrapping
outwitting
giving someone a bum steer
gulling
baiting
lying to
propagandising
UK
victimising
UK
covering up
pulling one's leg
putting up smoke screen
ripping off
putting on an act
giving wrong information to
catching
ensnaring
pulling a swifty on
leading down the garden path
double-crossing
pulling a fast one on
putting on false front
wrong steering
victimizing
US
roping in
dreaming up
conjuring up
entrapping
taking advantage of
playing for a sucker
diddling
illuding
devising
rooking
bunking
overreaching
playing trick on
putting one over on
enmeshing
entangling
leading up garden path
imposing on
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Verb
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Present participle for to speak in a manner that is exaggerated and typically not sincere
laying it on
exaggerating
overstating
embellishing
embroidering
overdoing
piling on
overdoing it
soft-soaping
embellishing the truth
giving fulsome praise
hamming it up
paying extravagant compliments
piling it on
sweet-talking
laying it on thick
laying on with a trowel
laying it on with a trowel
laying it on with a shovel
overstating the case
Verb
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Present participle for to talk extravagantly and imaginatively about
romancing
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
gushing
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
idealising
UK
idealizing
US
sentimentalising
UK
sentimentalizing
US
daydreaming
dreaming
exaggerating
lying
rhapsodising
UK
rhapsodizing
US
swooning
mooning
making up stories
telling stories
thinking romantically
building castles in the air
looking at through rose-colored glasses
viewing through rose-tinted glasses
letting your imagination run away with you
Verb
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Present participle for to give an impression of greater importance than is justified
inflating
exaggerating
embellishing
amplifying
magnifying
overstating
embroidering
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
hyperbolizing
overplaying
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
overdoing
padding
stretching
elaborating
expanding
overestimating
aggrandizing
enlarging
emphasising
UK
emphasizing
US
boosting
enhancing
exalting
augmenting
pyramiding
intensifying
increasing
escalating
extending
swelling
ballooning
bloating
filling
maximising
UK
maximizing
US
spreading
widening
blowing up
building up
blowing up out of all proportion
blowing something out of all proportion
touching up
making a big thing out of
fleshing out
pumping up
beefing up
driving up
swelling up
colouring
UK
coloring
US
making a mountain out of a molehill
fudging
heightening
falsifying
overdrawing
catastrophizing
puffing
lying
overselling
romanticizing
US
overpitching
romanticising
UK
elaborating on
laying it on thick
making too much of something
making a big thing of
piling it on
laying it on with a trowel
adding colour
laying it on with a shovel
shooting a line
drawing the longbow
making a drama out of a crisis
overstressing
distorting
overvaluing
misrepresenting
misreporting
fabricating
bragging
boasting
misquoting
hiking
corrupting
upping
overexaggerating
caricaturing
scamming
romancing
putting on
making a federal case of
making a production out of
laying on
cooking up
blowing out of proportion
going to extremes
prettying up
loud talking
piling it on about
laying it on thick about
bigging up
varnishing
laying it on with a trowel about
gilding
overembellishing
overelaborating
dressing up
adding detail to
adding flesh to
playing up
making federal case
enlarging on
jazzing up
exaggerating information
making a fuss
making a song and dance about
making a big deal out of something
deepening
multiplying
jacking up
raising
compounding
supersizing
supplementing
stepping up
adding to
hiking up
souping up
strengthening
accelerating
rising
mounting
redoubling
consolidating
growing
accentuating
dilating
stoking
hyping
burgeoning
broadening
mushrooming
snowballing
developing
distending
bourgeoning
puffing up
building
sweetening
amping up
upsurging
becoming larger
slapping on
running up
overrating
drawing the long bow
making a mountain out of
intensating
rousing
thickening
lengthening
jumping up
fattening
proliferating
making bigger
bulking
bulging
accumulating
becoming distended
filling out
appreciating
improving
adding
climbing
expatiating
gaining
bulking up
making larger
tacking on
bolstering
increasing in size
puffing out
protracting
getting bigger
becoming bigger
prolonging
tumefying
intumescing
refining
booming
waxing
upgrading
ameliorating
complementing
turning up
diffusing
becoming greater
upsizing
making greater
topping up
rolling up
embiggening
helping
cultivating
polishing
meliorating
reinforcing
elevating
perfecting
amending
lifting
bettering
parlaying
endowing
making richer
adding value
hopping up
enriching
spiking
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