false·hood (fôls h d )n. 1. An untrue statement; a lie. 2. The practice of lying. 3. Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy. |
falsehood
Noun
1. the quality of being untrue
2. a lie
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| Noun | 1. |  falsehood - a false statement statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth contradiction in terms, contradiction - (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction" true statement, truth - a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it" |
| 2. | falsehood - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting knavery, dishonesty - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing sophistication - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud |
falsehood
noun 1. untruthfulness, deception, deceit, dishonesty, prevarication, mendacity, dissimulation, perjury, inveracity (rare)
noun 2. lie, story, fiction, fabrication, fib, untruth, porky Brit. (slang) pork pie Brit. (slang) misstatement
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