Statement contradicted by facts and reality.
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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 The causes of falsity I have set forth very clearly in II.
2 They scoffed and jeered at it; denounced it as a manifest falsity .
3 Yet the truth or falsity of the protest had not been investigated.
4 There is but one Truth and we can not establish a falsity .
5 Is not the truth of ignorance better than the falsity of superstition?
1 To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love.
2 There is no preternatural inefficacy in it by reason of its falseness .
3 Who are the critics of the falseness of artifice in the Play?
4 We dread still more to show falseness in taste than in mind.
5 Ballast of falseness , they're useful for nothing but to render us useless.
1 The discrepancy in the figures is a sufficient proof of their untruthfulness .
2 And Betty laughed gayly at the untruthfulness of this picture of herself.
3 That statement contains another evidence of the untruthfulness of a half truth.
4 The imputation of untruthfulness was one to which she was particularly sensitive.
5 A period of extensive untruthfulness and deception occurred before she left home.
1 It is wonderful how very simple it is to flim - flam a philosopher.
2 Some of it is flim - flam and some of it is actually quite serious.
3 To its credit, the Portuguese entry avoided all this flim - flam .
4 To check the press release is not full of flam (very rare) 2.
5 And that's not the only flim - flam going on here.
6 Dr. Peile believes it to be all a flam .
7 Finally, in a court lit by a wrought-iron flam beau, she turned to face him.
8 There's also some nonsensical flim - flam going around claiming that selfies are leading to more plastic surgery.
9 Not for nothing shall they flim - flam Georges Coutlass!
10 The flash and the flam of the fashions becoming sad reminders of a moment grasped too forcefully.
11 If it had been Eddie Irvine in '99, it would have had the hollow ring of flim - flam .
12 They'll flim - flam you out of it somehow.
13 Even if you get hold of something good, them dam-robber government sharks will flim - flam you out of it.
14 Anyway, it's all flim - flam , meaningless games.
15 Though he had looked far less flam boy ant than usual, today, now she came to think of it.
16 What you hear from the Bush administration is plain speaking, stripped of all babble and flam , and it's wonderful.
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