the telling of lies; untruthfulness.

telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful; mendacious; false

a lying report.

adjective

direct , frank , honest

adjective

committing perjury , deceitful , deceptive , delusive , delusory , dissembling , dissimulating , double-crossing , double-dealing * , equivocating , false , falsifying , fibbing , guileful , inventing , mendacious , misleading , misrepresenting , misstating , perfidious , prevaricating , shifty , treacherous , tricky , two-faced * , two-timing , unreliable , untruthful , wrong , dishonest , fraudulent