falsely
83
3.5
- adverb
- /ˈfɔːlsli/
:
falsamente
- The journalist was fired for falsely reporting information in her article.
- falsely accuse
- falsely claim
- falsely believe
So Muslims are terrorized because they are falsely depicted as terrorists.
- So Muslims are terrorized because they are falsely depicted as terrorists.
- These were all old ideas and old technologies that Keeley had falsely taken credit for inventing.
- But again, she falsely testified against the people that hired her.
- And we presume falsely that everyone who's trans must be a transsexual.
- You don't want to, you want to rewrite history falsely.
- So he says, what is it to know something falsely?
- And if I paint myself a falsely optimistic view of what's real, I'll get tripped up.
- Both of them are asserting something falsely.
- I mean, I was falsely accused originally one year and nine months ago.
- It's a movie about an upscale rich guy played by Will Ferrell, who's basically been falsely accused of embezzlement and is going to jail.
- Frankly, what this does is it can falsely inflate the person's certainty that they made the correct identification.
- So they have no basis to suspect falsely or not.
Examples
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The question, then, is not whether innocent people falsely confess, but how often.
Academic text (1999) -
I mean, I was falsely accused originally one year and nine months ago.
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One of them is being falsely accused of firing his gun at you.
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In my judgment book, you have accused your brother falsely.
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But again, she falsely testified against the people that hired her.
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People are saying that Ed might have something to do with it, so I-- - Mr. Glick has been falsely accused, I'm certain of it.
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In the course of her work, Hagar cleared a falsely accused black woman of murdering her employer.
Fiction book (2001) -
He was convicted of a crime he did not commit and was falsely imprisoned for years.
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They claimed that the accusations against him were falsely made to damage his reputation.
Synonyms
65
2.7
In a way that is not correct or fair
57
1.7
In the wrong way
24
4.6
In a way that is unfair or against the law
16
5.7
In a way that makes something seem different from what it really is
12
6.7
In a mistaken way
7
4.2
In a way that is not correct or exact
4
3.5
In a way that tries to trick or cheat other people
2
5.3
In a way that gives someone the wrong idea
2
8.4
In a dishonest way, by pretending not to know something
1
6.3
In a way that tries to trick someone
1
5.9
In a way that is not true to make other people believe something false
1
7.7
In a way that seems true but is not
1
9.9
In a way that says things that are not true
1
8.4
In a wrong way because of a false belief that leads to wrong conclusions
In a way that seems true but is actually false
In a way that makes people believe something that is not true
Antonyms
How Untruthful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falsely comes from false, which goes back to the Latin words falsus and fallere, meaning 'to deceive'. The ending -ly turns the adjective into 'in a way', so falsely means 'in a way' that is not true or that tries to trick someone.