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Meanings of false name in English

Portuguese
nome falso
Catalan
mot

A name that has been assumed temporarily.

        nome falso
        Usage of false name in English
        1
        It had been rented under a false name almost a year before.
        The capitol game
        2
        When she rented anywhere new she'd do so under a false name.
        The Guardian
        3
        He could not see any joke in a false name being given.
        The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair / ...
        4
        Carruthers was a false name, but she was the woman all right.
        Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
        5
        A false name is security, and he had rejected that false name.
        Les Misérables
        6
        Don't deceive yourself with a name; nothing misleads like a false name.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        7
        She was tricked into marriage by a man bearing a false name.
        The White Princess
        8
        They get a phone installed under a false name in an empty safe-house.
        The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
        9
        Tomlin Ergoten is a false name meant to protect Pinkus Ghort.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        10
        Nothing; that is, nothing about Wilson going by a false name.
        The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
        11
        Here I live, in my real appearance, under a false name.
        Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
        12
        You gave me a false name to spy out the land.
        A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
        13
        He sidled up to a corporal and gave a false name.
        The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
        14
        I shall be obliged to change my residence, and assume a false name.
        The Lerouge Case
        15
        Nor did he want to tell an untruth, and give a false name.
        The Boy from the Ranch; Or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences
        16
        Quick as lightning, Guy suspected Nevitt might be passing under a false name.
        What's Bred in the Bone
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