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Present participle for to give a false or misleading account of the nature of

Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Present participle for to wrongly identify as someone or something else

Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about

Present participle for to mistreat or do an injustice to

Present participle for to be wrong or to make an incorrect judgment regarding

Present participle for to mimic, typically humorously

Present participle for to keep secret or cover the truth of

Present participle for to make unclear or difficult to understand

Present participle for to apply incorrectly

Present participle for to avoid providing a clear answer or statement

The act of speaking falsehoods or dissimulating misinformation

Of or pertaining to perjury

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Verb

Present participle for to give a false or misleading account of the nature of

misinterpreting

quoting out of context

putting a spin on

taking out of context

giving a false account of

giving a false idea of

interfering with

messing about with

putting words in someone's mouth

putting the wrong slant on

quoting incorrectly

cooking the books

twisting around

misarticulating

twisting someone's words

giving a false impression of

romanticizing^US

romanticising^UK

making adjustments to

making changes to

making alterations to

putting on an act

performing magic

varnishing over

giving a false picture of

making a pretense of

falsely representing

giving a false identity to

arranging fraudulently

bastardizing^US

bastardising^UK

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“He has also been quoted as being rather annoyed that the ID advocates continually misrepresent his views.”

Verb

Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms

overemphasising^UK

overemphasizing^US

catastrophizing

romanticising^UK

romanticizing^US

overexaggerating

laying it on thick

making too much of something

stretching the truth

making a big thing of

making a federal case of

laying it on with a trowel

blowing something out of all proportion

blowing up out of all proportion

laying it on with a shovel

making a production out of

drawing the longbow

making a mountain out of a molehill

shooting a line

blowing out of proportion

going to extremes

piling it on about

laying it on thick about

making a drama out of a crisis

laying it on with a trowel about

emphasizing too much

drawing the long bow

making a big thing out of

melodramatizing

overdramatizing

chewing the scenery

making a production of

attaching too much importance to

attaching too much weight to

overembellishing

going overboard

overstating the case

making federal case

making a big thing about

making a big deal out of something

harping on about

laying too much emphasis on

placing too much emphasis on

chewing up the scenery

theatricalizing

stretching a point

blowing up out of proportion

allowing too much for

overelaborating

overcalculating

magnifying importance

expressing emotion

adding detail to

adding flesh to

making a song and dance about

laying too much stress on

sensationalizing^US

giving someone a sob story

making a mountain out of

exaggerating information

going into detail about

making something out of nothing

spreading on thick

going on and on about

going over the top about

sensationalising^UK

giving substance to

playing on heartstrings

giving color to

playing to gallery

making a performance of

playing to the gallery

getting carried away

paying extravagant compliments

embellishing the truth

giving fulsome praise

laying on with a trowel

going overboard with

making a thing of

making a thing about

straining yourself

driving oneself

pulling the longbow

biting off too much

running into the ground

putting emphasis on

focusing attention on

calling attention to

turning spotlight on

drawing attention to

bringing attention to

laying emphasis on

bringing to the fore

giving prominence to

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Verb

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

telling stories

stretching the truth

telling untruths

departing from the truth

inventing a story

making up a story

forswearing oneself

not telling the truth

telling a terminological inexactitude

creating fiction

speaking with forked tongue

telling a little white lie

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling someone's leg

stringing along

telling a white lie

putting on the wrong track

throwing off the scent

sending on a wild goose chase

doing a number on

taking for a ride

leading up the garden path

telling untruth

creating out of thin air

propagandizing^US

giving the wrong impression

giving someone a bum steer

propagandising^UK

pulling one's leg

putting up smoke screen

putting on an act

giving wrong information to

pulling a swifty on

leading down the garden path

double-crossing

pulling a fast one on

putting on false front

taking advantage of

playing for a sucker

playing trick on

putting one over on

leading up garden path

telling a falsehood

telling an untruth

concocting a story

saying something untrue

perjuring oneself

bearing false witness

breaking promise

committing perjury

putting up a front

spinning a yarn

lying under oath

swearing falsely

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Verb

Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Verb

Present participle for to wrongly identify as someone or something else

Verb

Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about

scandalising^UK

scandalizing^US

dishonouring^UK

speaking ill of

dragging through the mud

dragging through the mire

casting aspersions on

speaking evil of

flinging mud at

slinging mud at

giving a bad name

throwing mud at

spreading scandal about

doing a hatchet job on

telling lies about

casting a slur on

running a smear campaign against

blackening someone's name

running smear campaign

stigmatizing^US

stigmatising^UK

gossiping about

giving a black eye

blackening the name of

writing false reports about

spreading tales about

dragging someone's name through the mud

dragging name through mud

casting aspersion

accusing falsely

spreading lies about

bringing into disrepute

bringing discredit to

bringing shame upon

doing a number on

reflecting badly on

bringing shame on

tarring and feathering

ripping up and down

pouring scorn on

taking to pieces

detracting from

inveighing against

speaking badly of

sullying the reputation of

railing against

fulminating against

blackening the reputation of

conducting a smear campaign against

throwing brickbats at

pulling to pieces

cutting to the quick

taking down a peg

underestimating

trivializing^US

blackening the character of

putting in a bad light

hitting where one lives

treating lightly

trivialising^UK

making light of

finding fault with

picking holes in

cutting down to size

casting slur on

putting zingers on

dragging through mud

marginalizing^US

clamoring against

discountenancing

looking down on

vituperating against

marginalising^UK

giving a bad name to

putting someone in their place

making someone eat crow

taking down a peg or two

causing to lose face

taking a dig at

tearing to pieces

putting hooks in

criticizing unfairly

giving black eye

giving offence to

causing offence to

treating disrespectfully

hurting somebody's feelings

stepping on one's toes

showing in a bad light

bringing into disfavour

raising your hackles

giving the cold shoulder

putting your back up

ruffling one's feathers

giving a zinger

making somebody's hackles rise

reading the riot act

giving someone a dressing-down

tearing a strip off

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Verb

Present participle for to mistreat or do an injustice to

Verb

Present participle for to be wrong or to make an incorrect judgment regarding

misinterpreting

misapprehending

misunderstanding

miscomprehending

underestimating

estimating wrongly

judging incorrectly

taking something amiss

getting the wrong idea about

having wrong impression

putting a wrong interpretation on

getting it wrong

getting the wrong idea

receiving a false impression

missing the point

getting the wrong impression about

getting the wrong end of the stick

getting hold of the wrong end of the stick

getting signals crossed

getting the wrong impression

dropping the ball

missing by a mile

not registering

taking something the wrong way

getting wrong impression

getting signals mixed

getting your lines crossed about

misconjecturing

calculating wrongly

getting your wires crossed

getting your lines crossed

coming to hasty conclusion

barking up wrong tree

jumping to the wrong conclusion about

getting the wrong end of the stick about

getting a false impression of

making a wrong interpretation of

taking out of context

making an error

making a mistake about

making a boo-boo

making a mistake

making a howler

failing to understand

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Verb

Present participle for to mimic, typically humorously

taking the mickey

doing an impression of

doing a takeoff of

taking the piss out of

making a mockery of

masquerading as

characterizing^US

characterising^UK

putting on an act

passing oneself off as

doing an impersonation of

pretending to be

treading the boards

playing the part of

making a monkey out of

purporting to be

professing to be

representing oneself as

bringing down the house

putting it over

assuming character

making a fool of

taking the part of

doing a take-off

following example

following the example of

taking leaf out of book

taking the role of

acting the part of

patterning after

doing an impression

following in footsteps

trying to be like

playing to the gallery

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Verb

Present participle for to keep secret or cover the truth of

Verb

Present participle for to make unclear or difficult to understand

Verb

Present participle for to apply incorrectly

Verb

Present participle for to avoid providing a clear answer or statement

Noun

The act of speaking falsehoods or dissimulating misinformation

misrepresentation

underhandedness

telling stories

lack of veracity

little white lies

committing perjury

disingenuousness

double-crossing

monkey business

untrustworthiness

misappropriation

unscrupulousness

breach of trust

stab in the back

lying under oath

wilful falsehood

giving false testimony

bearing false witness

false statement

bearing false testimony

forswearing oneself

false testimony

giving false evidence

violation of an oath

making false statements

ambidextrousness

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Adjective

Of or pertaining to perjury

committing perjury

double-crossing

commiting perjury

swearing falsely

bearing false witness

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

economical with the truth

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