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fencing

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fenc=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

fencingn. 
  •  The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The materials used for building fences.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The act of building a fence.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fencing, n.
1 a set or extent of fences.
2 material for making fences.
3 the art or sport of swordplay.

THESAURUS

fencing

bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, swordplay, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words

ROGET THESAURUS

fencing

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.


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