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Falsely

Falsely Meaning & Definition
Falsely Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Falsely?

[adv] in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
[adv] in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Falsely: incorrectly

Related Terms | Find terms related to Falsely: amiss | apparently | artificially | astray | beguilingly | deceptively | delusively | erroneously | factitiously | fallaciously | faultfully | faultily | in disguise | in name only | misleadingly | mistakenly | nominally | ostensibly | plausibly | seemingly | spuriously | synthetically | trickily | truthlessly | under cover of | under false colors | ungenuinely | unnaturally | untrue | untruly | unveraciously | wrong | wrongly

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Falsely In Webster's Dictionary

\False"ly\, adv. In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. ``O falsely, falsely murdered.'' --Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. --1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer. vii. 9.

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