misinformationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmɪs.ɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌmɪs.ɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/wrong information, or the fact that people are misinformed:
There's a lot of misinformation about the disease that needs to be corrected.
information intended to deceive:
His election campaign was based on misinformation about the rival candidates.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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