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false·hood
(fôls′ho͝od′)n.
1. An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
2. The practice of lying.
3. Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
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falsehood
(ˈfɔːlsˌhʊd)n
1. the quality of being untrue
2. an untrue statement; lie
3. the act of deceiving or lying
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false•hood
(ˈfɔls hʊd)n.
1. a false statement; lie.
2. something false, as an untrue idea or belief.
3. the act or practice of telling lies; mendacity.
4. lack of conformity to truth or fact; falsity.
[1250–1300]
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Noun | 1. | falsehood - a false statement statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth contradiction in terms, contradiction - (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction" true statement, truth - a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it" |
2. | falsehood - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting knavery, dishonesty - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing sophistication - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud |
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falsehood
noun
1. untruthfulness, deception, deceit, dishonesty, prevarication, mendacity, dissimulation, perjury, inveracity (rare) She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.
2. lie, story, fiction, fabrication, fib, untruth, porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang), misstatement He accused them of knowingly spreading falsehoods about him.
Quotations
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth" [G.C. Lichtenberg]
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth" [G.C. Lichtenberg]
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falsehood
noun1. An untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.
Informal: fish story, tall tale.
Slang: whopper.
3. The practice of lying:
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Translations
كَذِب
klamležpodvod
løgnusandhed
ósannindi
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
falsehood
[ˈfɔːlshʊd] n (= lie) → mensonge mfalse imprisonment n → séquestration f arbitraire, détention f arbitraireCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
falsehood
n
(= lie) → Unwahrheit f
no pl (of statement etc) → Unwahrheit f
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false
(foːls) adjective1. not true; not correct. He made a false statement to the police.
2. not genuine; intended to deceive. She has a false passport.
3. artificial. false teeth.
4. not loyal. false friends.
ˈfalsehood noun (the telling of) a lie. She is incapable of (uttering a) falsehood.
ˈfalsify (-fӕi) verb to make false. He falsified the accounts.
ˌfalsifiˈcation (-fi-) nounˈfalsity noun
false alarm
a warning of something which in fact does not happen.
false start in a race, a start which is declared not valid and therefore has to be repeated.
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