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Meanings of falsehood in English
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting.
Usage of falsehood in English
1
The climax is in the deliberate falsehood contained in the closing words.
2
Say yes or no; one word will suffice; but beware of falsehood.
3
No virtue assists itself with falsehood; truth is never matter of error.
4
Both are forms of falsehood, ways of reducing and demeaning our humanity.
5
There is always a propriety in truth, and an impropriety in falsehood.
6
And in many cases, that meant oversimplifying, omitting, and even outright falsehood.
7
As it was, I perpetrated a deliberate falsehood in the good cause.
8
Prompt investigation proved the falsehood of these fraudulent letters in every instance.
9
It is in falsehood only that there is real loss of honour.
10
Then it tells you a falsehood;-forI am thinking of you always.
11
By falsehood and cheating he preyed on the credulity of the public.
12
For the honor of truth, and the shame of falsehood, she exists.
13
I saved myself from their importunity by the falsehood of the oath.
14
They who are in evil and falsehood are afraid of all others.
15
The evidence of his clerk will hurl back the falsehood upon himself.
16
This falsehood drove hundreds of the ignorant Missourians into the rebel ranks.
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Falsehood across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare