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What is another word for not told the truth?

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Verb
Past tense for to tell an untruth or falsehood
lied
lay
laid
fibbed
fabricated
prevaricated
dissimulated
deceived
deluded
falsified
misled
bluffed
exaggerated
misrepresented
conned
dissembled
equivocated
hoaxed
hoodwinked
misinformed
perjured
pretended
beguiled
duped
misguided
misspoke
misspoken
misstated
tricked
bulled
capped
distorted
forswore
forsworn
fudged
gaslighted
gaslit
misinstructed
overdrew
overdrawn
paltered
perverted
snowed
snew
snown
told a falsehood
told an untruth
concocted a story
departed from the truth
stretched the truth
strung along
told a lie
told stories
beared false witness
broke promise
broken promise
committed perjury
faked it
forswore oneself
forsworn oneself
had on
made up a story
perjured oneself
put on the wrong track
said something untrue
told untruths
threw off the scent
thrown off the scent
invented a story
put on
put up a front
sent on a wild goose chase
told a terminological inexactitude
led astray
BSed
told a white lie
lacked candor
gave the wrong impression
given the wrong impression
faked
feigned
invented
concocted
jived
kidded
planted
trumped up
made up
created fiction
told a fib
pulled the wool over someone's eyes
told a little white lie
pulled someone's leg
spoken with forked tongue
spoke with forked tongue
put on an act
put up smoke screen
put on false front
fooled
misdirected
bamboozled
snookered
disinformed
suckered
cozened
gaffed
hornswoggled
juggled
propagandizedUS
burnt
burned
had
gammoned
spoofed
buffaloed
humbugged
caught
mousetrapped
propagandisedUK
gulled
led up the garden path
led on
sucked in
wrong steered
pulled one's leg
led down the garden path
covered up
put one over on
faked out
scammed
hosed
bilked
swindled
inveigled
illuded
cheated
shafted
defrauded
bunked
betrayed
outfoxed
rooked
baited
entangled
outwitted
overreached
victimisedUK
ensnared
victimizedUS
enmeshed
imposed on
took in
taken in
lain to
lay to
took for a ride
done a number on
gave wrong information to
gave someone a bum steer
pulled a swifty on
double-crossed
led up garden path
given wrong information to
ripped off
played trick on
taken for a ride
given someone a bum steer
roped in
pulled a fast one on
did a number on
“In my place, we have a saying that when five siblings go into a room to speak truthfully to each other and they come out smiling, it means that they have not told the truth.”
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