v
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
n
The practice, in social justice circles, of publicly criticizing people for violating accepted behavioural standards.
n
A conflicting condition; conflict.
v
(transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
v
(transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
v
(transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
n
One who sows doubts in the minds of others.
v
(intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive.
v
(obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
v
(transitive) To make false; falsify
v
(transitive) To falsify or counterfeit.
v
(transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
n
Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
n
(obsolete) A censurer or caviler.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To mock; deride; defame; publish the misdeeds of.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive or transitive) To respond to an insult, accusation, or falsehood by saying the offender is lying, particularly in the context of provoking a challenge to a duel.
n
An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
v
(literary) To give a false impression to.
v
(transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
v
To lie (tell untruths) brazenly.
n
A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
n
Deliberate publication of private information for personal or corporate rather than public interest, such as revenge porn. Deliberate change of context, date or time of genuine content.
v
(transitive) To falsify (data or accounts).
v
To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.
v
(transitive) To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
n
(obsolete) A critic; a censorious person.
v
(intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
n
(obsolete) rivalry; competition
v
To falsely attribute an insubstantial argument (a straw man argument) to another through direct declaration or indirect implication; to put words in someone's mouth.
adj
avoiding unpleasant truths; having one's head in the sand
n
One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
n
(law) The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation.
v
Obsolete spelling of equivocate [(intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive.]
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