List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 123

SYNONYMS: dishonest, lying, untruthful, deceitful.
These adjectives mean lacking honesty or truthfulness.

Dishonest is the least specific: a dishonest answer; a dishonest car dealer; dishonest profits.
Lying conveys a blunt accusation of untruth: His testimony made it obvious that he was a lying witness.
Untruthful is a softer but closely related term; it suggests both lack of veracity and divergence from fact: made an untruthful statement. As experiments are completed the hypothesis seems increasingly untruthful.
Deceitful implies misleading by falsehood or by concealment of the truth: deceitful advertising; a deceitful person.