falsehood Hear it!

falsehood Definition

false·hood (-ho̵od′)

noun

  1. lack of accuracy or truth; falsity; deception
  2. the telling of lies; lying
  3. a false statement; lie
  4. a false belief, theory, idea, etc.

Etymology: ME falshod: see false & -hood

falsehood Synonyms

falsehood

n.

prevarication, misrepresentation, story, untruth; see lie 1.

falsehood Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • utter: But the Qur'an says: " They denied the truth and uttered a monstrous falsehood against Mary.
  • invent: Who doth more wrong than such as invent a falsehood against Allah?
  • expose: For any lawyer knows that you can expose falsehood by asking witnesses about the details.
  • spread: Perhaps today you have an antagonist spreading falsehood about you.
  • repeat: Your argument otherwise is to repeat falsehoods, seeming to imagine that through repetition they will come true.
  • believe: All of these would have had to believe a complete falsehood.

Adjective modifier

  • malicious: The malicious falsehood arose from a cheeky claim by Mr Conway that BT was actually a client of his.
  • blatant: The most blatant falsehoods are in respect of temporal structure.
  • outright: The current issue of the left-wing magazine Red Pepper takes evasion into outright falsehood.
  • deliberate: It may even be a deliberate falsehood with the intention of encouraging dangerous or evil acts.
  • logical: Such instances provide us with our empirical experiences of ' logical falsehood ' .
  • such: But I really ought to feel safe without the need to resort to such falsehood.

Modifies a noun

cannot: Book of God, into which falsehood cannot enter.

Noun used with modifier

  • material: Some typical examples included: Example 1 - An application for employment contains material falsehoods.
  • practice: Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • spread: I say Muhammad was used by Satan do spread falsehood.

Preposition: in

respect: In it, he claimed malicious falsehood in respect of confidential reports about his performance and promotion prospects.

Preposition: of

  • proposition: Your immediate object is to test the truth or falsehood of the proposition by your own living experience.
  • expression: Feedback true and false All conditional statements use the truth or falsehood of a conditional expression to determine the execution path.
  • democracy: The hegemony and oppression which America and the Western states practice against other people, clearly proves the corruption and falsehood of this democracy.