mendacious :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

adj. given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child"

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

inaccurate, erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"

false, mistaken

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

faulty

adj. characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

mistaken, misguided

adj. wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"

delinquent

adj. guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors"

slick, cunning, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

dastard, dastardly

adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

nefarious, villainous

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

invalid

adj. "a false start"; "a false alarm"

specious

adj. plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

wrong, untrue

adj. not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

false, trumped up

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

accurate

adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"

right, correct

adj. socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"

truthful

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

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