Prevarication

It has many forms:

Synonyms of prevarication

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, story, tale, untruth, whopper

Words Related to prevarication

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation

defamation, libel, slander

perjury

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

(click here for source)