falsehood
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈfɔlsˌhʊd/
- The politician was caught spreading a falsehood during the debate.
- truth and falsehood
- defamatory falsehood
- deception and falsehood
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Watch on YouTubeThe comfort that you get from believing a falsehood is like a drug.
- The comfort that you get from believing a falsehood is like a drug.
- Was waging war in Iraq based on falsehood the best option available?
- It's a blend of falsehood and and truth, very strange blend.
- I think that this is rooted in falsehoods because this is not true.
- Instead, better to let truth and falsehood grapple.
- It is simply evil to indoctrinate kids with these falsehoods, with these lies.
- And because we know the truth, we shouldn't tolerate or accept falsehood.
- Well, are you going to bet on truth or falsehood?
- There were two or three claims in now you know, libel and malicious falsehoods, which I won.
- And unfortunately, it's attracted to lies or falsehood.
- Arguably the most important thing that that network should do is favor truth over falsehoods.
- And he says that little brothers, there's only two camps, Huck or Barton, truthfulness or falsehood.
- It's really important that you note who stood up and who fought against lies and falsehood and who demonstrated wise thinking.
- So it has a response to truth or falsehood that's more subtle and sophisticated than my intellectual knowledge.
- And being on that journey, it literally ripped away every single ounce of falsehood that existed.
- Like what was the cause of that is that he does the actual heist that the crooked cop wants them to do, but there's some falsehoods in it because it's a setup.
- That is, we have abstract ideas and objects, numbers, sets, logic, truths and falsehoods, and the entire Platonic world of ideals.
Examples
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Almost every candidate has said some falsehoods and they've said it in front of, you know, many millions of potential voters.
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Like yourselves, I seek to unmask falsehood and bring the truth to light.
Fiction book (1998) -
In politics, falsehood plays a great role, and a small place is left for truth.
Academic text (1991) -
A foundation built on falsehood.
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And so you will take their word against both of ours and traffic in falsehood from now on?
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Illusion and falsehood are certainly part of reality, but they are not part of truth.
Academic text (1993) -
It's really important that you note who stood up and who fought against lies and falsehood and who demonstrated wise thinking.
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Was waging war in Iraq based on falsehood the best option available?
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My life is full of such falsehoods, which doesn't make them easier to bear.
Fiction book (1994) -
On the other hand, the more falsehood is propagated, the more reliable and identifiable truth will become.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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2.7
A false statement told to trick someone
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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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6.7
A statement that is partly true but leaves out important facts to mislead
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5.8
An incorrect statement that gives the wrong facts
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7.9
A statement or idea that is not true
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5.4
An obvious statement that is not true and said without shame
A false statement used as evidence in law or argument
Antonyms
How Untrue
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falsehood comes from false meaning 'not true' and the ending -hood meaning 'state' or 'condition', as in childhood. So a falsehood is simply the 'state of being false', which means a lie.