[204] "And, venerable sir, cultivating what kind of verbal conduct do unwholesome states increase and wholesome states decline? Here, venerable sir, a certain person is a speaker of falsehood (musāvādī): when he has gone to a council, or gone to an assembly, or gone into the midst of relatives, or gone into the midst of a guild, or gone into the midst of the royal court, and is brought forward and questioned as a witness, 'Come, good man, tell what you know'—then, not knowing, he says 'I know'; or knowing, he says 'I do not know'; not seeing, he says 'I see'; or seeing, he says 'I do not see'; thus for his own sake, or for another's sake, or for the sake of some trifling material gain, he is a speaker of deliberate falsehood. Further, he is a speaker of divisive speech (pisuṇavāco): having heard something here, he tells it elsewhere in order to divide these people; or having heard something elsewhere, he tells it to these people in order to divide those; thus he is a divider of those who are united and an instigator of those already divided; delighting in faction, rejoicing in faction, taking pleasure in faction, he is a speaker of speech that creates faction. Further, he is a speaker of harsh speech (pharusavāco): he speaks the kind of speech that is offensive, rough, bitter, wounding to others, bordering on anger, and not conducive to concentration (samādhi). Further, he is one given to idle chatter (samphappalāpī): speaking out of time, speaking what is untrue, speaking what is unbeneficial, speaking contrary to the Dhamma, speaking contrary to the Vinaya; he is a speaker of speech not worth treasuring—untimely, without reason, without limit, and unconnected with benefit. Venerable sir, when one cultivates verbal conduct of such a kind, unwholesome states increase and wholesome states decline."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.