falsehood

[False·hood]

A falsehood is a lie. If your mom has an uncanny knack for knowing when you're telling a falsehood, it means she always knows when you're stretching the truth.

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Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

Noun
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

Noun
a false statement


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.


Falsehood

False"hood , n. [False + -hood] 1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it.
2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. 3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
Betrayed by falsehood of his guard.
4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
For his molten image is falsehood.
No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
Syn. -- Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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Usage Examples

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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Other Usage Examples

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

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