hāwatewate
1. (verb) to be false, untrue, lying, misleading, fallacious.
Kaua e whakarongo ki taua pākiwaha, he hāwatewate āna kōrero. / Don't listen to that loud-mouth, what he says is untrue.
Synonyms: teka, tipatipa, te puku, whakapōhēhē, whakakūare, tuapeka
2. (modifier) false, untrue, lying, misleading, fallacious.
He kōrero hāwatewate kau ērā nā te wahine harawene. / Those are blatantly untrue statements by a jealous woman.
