"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
False speaking in any matter, every attempt or purpose to deceive our
neighbor, is here included. An intention to deceive is what
constitutes falsehood. By a glance of the eye, a motion of the hand,
an expression of the countenance, a falsehood may be told as
effectually as by words. All intentional overstatement, every hint or
insinuation calculated to convey an erroneous or exaggerated
impression, even the statement of facts in such a manner as to
mislead, is falsehood. This precept forbids every effort to injure
our neighbor's reputation by misrepresentation or evil surmising, by
slander or tale bearing. Even the intentional suppression of truth,
by which injury may result to others, is a violation of the ninth
commandment.