falsification
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7.7
- noun
- /ˌfɔːlsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Formal
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falsificación
- He faced severe penalties due to the falsification of records in his financial reports.
- falsification and plagiarism
Have people found conscious, clear falsifications?
- Have people found conscious, clear falsifications?
- There is this massive problem of preference falsification where you where we, it is seeming like many more people agree with the, the fringes than do.
Examples
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The survey identified significant areas of falsification by job applicants.
Academic text (2000) -
But what you are proposing is falsification of the evidence.
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If that discovery had not happened, the falsification of documents and training would have continued.
Blog text (28) -
But this is a clear falsification of the phenomena.
Academic text (2001) -
Falsification of age in obtaining a marriage license.
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Here we have the presumption of a crime for falsification of signatures.
Blog text (7) -
Illegal traffic can take many forms, from simple falsification of documents to large-scale organized smuggling.
Academic text (1999) -
Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation, or deception.
Blog text (25) -
Documented cases exist of graduate students who felt driven to falsification or fabrication by pressure, for example, to experimentally confirm a research supervisor's theory.
Academic text (2004) -
Research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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2.1
Telling something that is not true on purpose
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3.9
An action that makes someone believe something not true
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5.8
A report or statement that gives a false picture of the truth
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6.0
A copy of a document or object made to look real to trick people
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6.8
Information people spread on purpose to deceive others
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6.5
A false story made to trick people
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7.5
A statement that gives false information about something
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6.8
A thing or action made to trick people into thinking it is real
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5.3
Giving wrong information in official papers or records
To make false information, for example in documents or results, to trick people
Antonyms
How Fraudulent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word falsification comes from false ('not true') and a part that means 'to make', like in factory. So falsification can mean the act of making something false on purpose, for example by altering documents or data.