作り事

つくりごと

Also written 作り言

Meanings

1. Noun, の-adjective fabrication; lie; fiction

Kanji

• 作 make. Read as つくり.
• 事 matter. Read as こと.

Example sentences

• 作り事はすべて、真実だ。
  All that which is invented, is true.
• 彼の話は作りごとだったとわかった。
  What he had said proved to be a myth.
• 愛は作りごとにすぎない。
  Love is only an invention.

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