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ˈfɔls hʊdfalse·hood
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, trickery, untruthAntonyms:
candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity
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Princeton's WordNet
falsehood, falsity, untruthnoun
a false statement
Synonyms:
falsity, untruth, falsification, falsenessAntonyms:
true statement, truthfalsification, falsehoodnoun
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Synonyms:
refutation, untruth, disproof, falsification, refutal, misrepresentation, falsity, falsifyingAntonyms:
true statement, truth
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
falsehoodnoun
Synonyms:
falsity, want of truth, inconformity to fact or truthfalsehoodnoun
Synonyms:
untruth, lie, fib, fabrication, fiction, false assertionfalsehoodnoun
Synonyms:
imposture, counterfeit, cheat
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
falsehoodnoun
Synonyms:
inveracity, untruthfulness, lie, fiction, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, canard
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List of paraphrases for "falsehood":
untruth, falseness, lie, fallacy, dishonesty, forgery, misrepresentation
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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| #899 | error | |
| #4241 | craft | |
| #4480 | fraud | |
| #4929 | lie | |
| #6230 | cheat | |
| #7137 | lying | |
| #12310 | fabrication | |
| #15524 | deception | |
| #20106 | imposition | |
| #21506 | hypocrisy | |
| #25925 | guile | |
| #26623 | cunning | |
| #29324 | misrepresentation | |
| #30154 | deceit | |
| #30443 | dishonesty | |
| #31640 | fallacy | |
| #32128 | forgery | |
| #33029 | delusion | |
| #35918 | finesse | |
| #41919 | falsehood | |
| #55580 | falsification | |
| #56510 | trickery | |
| #58273 | refutation | |
| #69173 | duplicity | |
| #72525 | falsity | |
| #80022 | falsifying | |
| #108989 | untruth | |
| #111863 | sophistry | |
| #124372 | mendacity | |
| #176365 | dissimulation | |
| #200072 | falseness | |
| #211784 | deceitfulness | |
| #218824 | prevarication | |
| #234859 | disproof |
How to use falsehood in a sentence?
The predicate of the nation’s problems - and the party’s problems - going forward is that too many Republicans have promoted the falsehood that the election was stolen.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.
When McCarthy finally reached the President on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the President initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol, mcCarthy refuted that and told the President that these were Trump supporters. That's when, according to McCarthy, the President said :' Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Translations for falsehood
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- الباطلArabic
- лъжа́, лъжли́вост, непра́вилност, фалш, гре́шкаBulgarian
- ležCzech
- LügeGerman
- falsedadSpanish
- epärehellisyys, valheellisuus, epätotuus, valeFinnish
- mensongeFrench
- bréagIrish
- falsità, menzogna, menzogneroItalian
- שקרHebrew
- onwaarheidDutch
- falsidadePortuguese
- falsitateRomanian
- лжи́вость, ложь, фальшь, непра́вильность, непра́вдаRussian
- มุสาวาทThai
- mintreye, minteWalloon
- 謬誤Chinese
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