About The Word Falsehood
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Falsehood
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What's The Definition Of Falsehood?
[n] the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
[n] a false statement Synonyms | Synonyms for Falsehood: false statement | falsification | falsity | untruth Related Terms | Find terms related to Falsehood: blague | canard | cock-and-bull story | credibility gap | deceit | dishonesty | dissimulation | distortion | erroneousness | error | exaggeration | fabrication | fairy tale | fakery | fallaciousness | fallacy | falseness | falsity | farfetched story | farrago | feigning | fib | fibbery | fibbing | fiction | fish story | flam | flimflam | fraud | ghost story | half-truth | inveracity | legal fiction | lie | little white lie | lying | mendaciousness | mendacity | misrepresentation | misstatement | mythomania | pious fiction | pretense | prevarication | pseudology | sham | slight stretching | story | tale | tall story | tall tale | taradiddle | trumped-up story | truthlessness | untrueness | untruth | untruthfulness | unveraciousness | white lie | yarn See Also | contradiction | contradiction in terms | deceit | deception | dishonesty | dodge | dodging | fable | fabrication | fiction | forgery | frame-up | knavery | lie | misrepresentation | prevarication | scheme | setup | sophistication | statement Falsehood In Webster's Dictionary \False"hood\, n. [False + -hood]
1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or
representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a
falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a
wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of
the wheel which moveth it. --Fuller.
2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be
untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. --Shak.
4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
For his molten image is falsehood. --Jer. x. 14.
No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
--Milton.
Syn: Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See
{Falsity}.
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