false statements
Deliberately incorrect assertions
False statements are claims that aren't true.
The phrase appears frequently in legal contexts, where making false statements to authorities constitutes a crime: He was charged with making false statements to federal investigators.
Outside legal usage, the phrase is a formal or euphemistic way to say lies: The report contained numerous false statements about the company's finances.
- disinformationIntentional deceptive falsehoods
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
- bald-faced lieShameless, obvious untruth
- lieDeliberate falsehood
- white lieHarmless minor falsehood
deceit · fabrication · tall tale · mistake · perjury · propaganda · slander · calumny · equivocation · hoax · pants on fire · gaslighting · alternative facts · forgery · defamation · prevarication · mendacity · fraud
- fraudscam, fraud, swindle, con, deceive
- document frauddocument fraud, forged documents, fake documents, falsification, counterfeit documents
- federal crimesbank robbery, kidnapping, counterfeiting, tax fraud, wire fraud
- financial crimesbank fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- legal misconductobstruction, perjury, contempt, jury tampering, evidence tampering