a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

deliberately deceptive

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

falsify knowingly

make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

a deliberately false or improbable account

a misleading falsehood

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false