Falsehood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An untrue statement; a lie.
  • n. The practice of lying.
  • n. Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The property of being false.
  • n. A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
  • n. Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
  • n. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
  • n. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
  • n. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The fact or quality of being false; falseness; dishonest purpose or intention; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy: opposed to truthfulness.
  • n. That which is false; a false representation in word or deed; an untruth; a lie: as, the tale is a series of falsehoods; to act a falsehood.
  • n. False manifestation or procedure; deceitful speech, action, or appearance; counterfeit; imposture; specifically, in law, a fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth to the prejudice of another.
  • n. Synonyms Falsehood, Falseness, Falsity; untruth, fabrication, fiction. Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, falsehood standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; falseness, for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his falseness to his oath; and falsity, for the quality of being false without blame: as, the falsity of reasoning.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
  • n. a false statement
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    untruth    fabrication    fiction    falsity    lie    error    misrepresentation    treachery    deceit    perfidy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    injustice    hypocrisy    deceit    fraud    dishonesty    wickedness    meanness    slander    folly    malice