false statement, falsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statement

canard - a deliberately misleading fabrication

authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"

creating from raw materials - the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it

shaping, formation - the fabrication of something in a particular shape

newspeak - deliberately ambiguous and contradictiory language use to mislead and manipulate the public; "the welfare state brought its own newspeak"

prefabrication - the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site

construction, building - the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"

misrepresentaation, falsification - a willful perversion of facts

fibbing, paltering - a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear