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false·hood  (fôlshd)

n.

1. An untrue statement; a lie.

2. The practice of lying.

3. Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.

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falsehood [ˈfɔːlsˌhʊd]

n

1. the quality of being untrue

2. an untrue statement; lie

3. the act of deceiving or lying

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	falsehood - a false statement                     untruth, falsity 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" dodging, scheme, dodge - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth fable, fabrication, fiction - a deliberately false or improbable account deception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood 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 falsification knavery, dishonesty - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing frame-up, setup - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge 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

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falsehood

noun

1. untruthfulness, deception, deceit, dishonesty, prevarication, mendacity, dissimulation, perjury, inveracity (rare) She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.

2. lie, story, fiction, fabrication, fib, untruth, porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang), misstatement He accused them of knowingly spreading falsehoods about him.

Quotations
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth" [G.C. Lichtenberg]

Translations

falsehood [ˈfɔːlshʊd] N (= falsity) → falsedad f; (= lie) → mentira f

falsehood [ˈfɔːlshʊd] n (= lie) → mensonge m
false imprisonment n → séquestration f arbitraire, détention f arbitraire

falsehood

n

(= lie) → Unwahrheit f

no pl (of statement etc) → Unwahrheit f

falsehood [ˈfɔːlsˌhʊd] n (frm) (lie) → menzogna
truth and falsehood → il vero e il falso