Synonyms 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.

   Synonyms:
   falseness, lie, mendacity, falsity

   Antonyms:
   truth, verity

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.

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

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

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1. falsehood

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

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

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1. falsehood, falsity, untruthnoun

   a false statement

   Synonyms:
   falsity, untruth, falsification, falseness

   Antonyms:
   true statement, truth

2. falsification, 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, falsifying

   Antonyms:
   true statement, truth

Matched Categories

1. • Dishonesty

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1. falsehoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   falsity, want of truth, inconformity to fact or truth

2. falsehoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   untruth, lie, fib, fabrication, fiction, false assertion

3. falsehoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   imposture, counterfeit, cheat

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1. falsehoodnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "falsehood":

   untruth, falseness, lie, fallacy, dishonesty, forgery, misrepresentation

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How to use falsehood in a sentence?

1. Plato:

   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.

2. William Shenstone:

   A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

3. Blaise Pascal:

   Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

4. Dag Hammarskjld:

   You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for

5. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.