Intentionally false statement to a person or group made by another person or group who knows it is not wholly the truth.
A false statement made with the intention to deceive.
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Examples for "falsehood "
Examples for "falsehood "
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 .
1 And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth .
2 But the senses witness to the untruth of what some maintain; viz.
3 He told the untruth unblushingly; it was by no means his first.
4 The closest she could come to untruth was to refrain from speaking.
5 Clearly that's a stereotypical untruth , although that's never stopped the Fiver before.
1 That is not true; and this is not the place for prevarication .
2 Anything less will feed into the sterile politics of drift and prevarication .
3 But his grand, simple, truthful spirit perceived no prevarication in her words.
4 You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication .
5 And I will say this, that here prevarication would avail you little.
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
Другие значения термина "Lie" 1 Suffering supervenes, and in suffering lies the very crisis of the malady.
2 He'd lied a million times before; they should be prepared for it.
3 The disappointment was unavoidable; but the sting of it lies in yourself.
4 Instead he had lied and he was free to continue his work.
5 But the difficulty lies less in the execution than in the conception.
6 In this fundamental difference lies the world-wide opposition of the two beliefs.
7 The fundamental principle of the hypnotic state lies in its selective character.
8 The main responsibility for fighting the current crisis lies with the governments.
9 The papyrus boat lies at the ferry; thou shalt descend in it.
10 The fitness and the beauty lie in the felicity of the language.
11 The work of the young lies in the present and the future.
12 Prosecutors say two former Penn State officials lied multiple times HARRISBURG, Penn.
13 The zone of the Brianconnais lies in the middle of the fan.
14 In the epic, all the strength of Çiva lies in the Linga.
15 The principal commercial forests lie in the South-Western districts of the Colony.
16 The cause of this particular insanity lies deep in the Anglo-American heart.
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