Antonyms for falsehood
ˈfɔls hʊdfalse·hood

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1. falsehoodnoun

   The property of being false.

   Synonyms:
   falseness, lie, mendacity, falsity

2. falsehoodnoun

   A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie

   Don't tell falsehoods.

   Antonyms:
   truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   falseness, lie, mendacity, falsity

3. falsehoodnoun

   Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.

   Synonyms:
   mendacity, falseness, falsity, lie

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1. falsehood

   Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive; the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity; but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. Falsehood and lying are in utterance; deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion; deceit always involves injurious intent. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality; they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit. Compare ARTIFICE; FICTION; FRAUD; HYPOCRISY.

   Antonyms:
   candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity

   Synonyms:
   craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, trickery, untruth

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. falsehood

   Antonyms:
   truth, correctness, verity, fact, authenticity, genuineness, honesty, honor, reality

   Synonyms:
   untruth, error, fallacy, sophistry, deception, forgery, lie, cheat

Matched Categories

1. • Dishonesty

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. falsehood, falsity, untruthnoun

   a false statement

   Antonyms:
   true statement, truth

   Synonyms:
   falsity, untruth, falsification, falseness

2. falsification, falsehoodnoun

   the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

   Antonyms:
   true statement, truth

   Synonyms:
   refutation, untruth, disproof, falsification, refutal, misrepresentation, falsity, falsifying

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1. falsehoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   inveracity, untruthfulness, lie, fiction, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, canard

How to use falsehood in a sentence?

1. Sanskrit Proverb:

   Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.

2. Proverb:

   There lies often falsehood beneath a pretty skin.

3. The Hope clinic administrator:

   I think that's a total falsehood.

4. Dr. Jose Rizal:

   Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. (Noli Me Tangere)

5. Plato:

   To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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