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faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably, false

adv. in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"

false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

false

adj. designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"

false, trumped up

adj. diverging from the truth: "a false statement"; "trumped up charge"

false, faithless

adj. (untrustworthy)

false, mistaken

adj. arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

false, untrue

adj. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"

delusive, false

adj. inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

false, off-key, sour

adj. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

apostate

adj. not faithful to religion or party or cause

pseudo

adj. (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"

crooked, corrupt

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

mock

adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)

adj. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend"

recreant, renegade

adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

hypocritical

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal

adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

sneaky, underhand, underhanded

adj. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"

erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"

faulty, incorrect, wrong

adj. characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"

baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild

adj. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

false, mistaken

adj. arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

illusive, illusory

adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"

mendacious

adj. intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

false

adj. designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"

faulty, incorrect, wrong

adj. characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish

adj. attempting to win favor by flattery

buttery

adj. resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"

hypocritical

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

dissimulative

adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"

gilded, meretricious, specious

adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

incorrect

adj. (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles

insincere

adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

unfaithful

adj. having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"

mendacious

adj. given to lying; "a mendacious child"

fly-by-night, shady

adj. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation"

devious, shifty

adj. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

slippery, tricky

adj. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"

fickle, volatile

adj. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

fantastic

adj. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"

kafkaesque

adj. characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations"

phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic

adj. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

unreasonable

adj. not reasonable; not showing good judgment

discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic

adj. lacking in harmony

unresolved, dissonant

adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

genuine, echt

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

frank

adj. clearly manifest; evident; "frank enjoyment"

true

adj. consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"

actual, genuine, literal, real

adj. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

genuine, echt

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

correct, right

adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

truthful

adj. conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"

firm, loyal, truehearted, fast(a)

adj. unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends"

truthful, true

adj. expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"

correct, right

adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

constant

adj. steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"

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