| noun | the act of determining that something is false |
| verb | make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story |
| verb | tamper, with the purpose of deception “Fudge the figures” |
| verb | prove false “Falsify a claim” |
| verb | falsify knowingly “She falsified the records” |
| verb | insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby |
| falsify | verb | prove false |
| refute | verb | prove to be false or incorrect |
| falsification | noun | a willful perversion of facts |
| falsity | noun | the state of being false or untrue |
| falsifier | noun | someone who falsifies |
| distortion | noun | a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) |
| warp | noun | a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting |
| warping | noun | a moral or mental distortion |
| fake | noun | something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be |
| faker | noun | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
| fakery | noun | the act of faking (or the product of faking) |
| wangle | noun | an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery |
| wangler | noun | a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods |
| misrepresentation | noun | a misleading falsehood |
| falsifying | noun | the act of determining that something is false |
| interpolation | noun | a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted |