Gongorism, Italian hand, ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, affectation, affectedness, airmanship, animal cunning, art, artifice, artificiality, artisanship, artistry, astuteness, bravura, brilliance, cageyness, callidity, canniness, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, credibility gap, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deftness, deviousness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, disingenuousness, duplicity, efficiency, euphemism, euphuism, expertise, facility, falseheartedness, falseness, fine Italian hand, finesse, forswearing, foxiness, fraud, furtiveness, gamesmanship, grace, grip, guile, guilefulness, handiness, horsemanship, hyperelegance, hypocrisy, indirection, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, insincerity, intrigue, inventiveness, know-how, low cunning, manneredness, mannerism, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, one-upmanship, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overrefinement, pawkiness, perjury, practical ability, preciosity, preciousness, pretentiousness, proficiency, prowess, purism, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sharp practice, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, style, subtility, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, treacherousness, trickiness, uncandidness, uncandor, underhandedness, unfrankness, unnaturalness, unsincereness, untruthfulness, virtuosity, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit, wizardry, workmanship

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Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.

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