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What do you call "lying the truth" into someone?

I'd rather not give names but essentially someone I know tried to convince me I had said something, rather serious, to someone else that would have really been devastating had the "truth been lied" into me and the person involved. Luckily the person involved recalled I had never said such a thing to them and the person lying eventually admitted to having made it up. What do you call this? The head liar had them self and another person directly confront me trying to convince me of the lie, which was a very serious one, had it been successful. Anyway what do you call this?

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William Hirst

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3y ago
Updated: 12/10/2022

Gaslighting. The term is named after a 1944 movie about it.

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Michael Scalise

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