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Falsehood

Falsehood Definition And Meaning
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}.

Falsehood Definition And Meaning

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

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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