falsely

false  (fôls)

adj. fals·er, fals·est

1. Contrary to fact or truth: false tales of bravery.

2. Deliberately untrue: delivered false testimony under oath.

3. Arising from mistaken ideas: false hopes of writing a successful novel.

4. Intentionally deceptive: a suitcase with a false bottom; false promises.

5. Not keeping faith; treacherous: a false friend. See Synonyms at faithless.

6. Not genuine or real: false teeth; false documents.

7. Erected temporarily, as for support during construction.

8. Resembling but not accurately or properly designated as such: a false thaw in January; the false dawn peculiar to the tropics.

9. Music Of incorrect pitch.

10. Unwise; imprudent: Don't make a false move or I'll shoot.

11. Computer Science Indicating one of two possible values taken by a variable in Boolean logic or a binary device.

adv.

In a treacherous or faithless manner: play a person false.

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[Middle English fals, from Old English, counterfeit, and from Old French, false, both from Latin falsus, from past participle of fallere, to deceive.]

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falsely adv.

falseness n.

Thesaurus

Adv.	1.	falsely - in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"
	2.	falsely - in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" incorrectly

Translations

falsely [ˈfɔːlslɪ] ADV

1. (= untruthfully) → falsamente; (= mistakenly) → equivocadamente
she had falsely claimed that → había asegurado falsamente que ...
he was falsely accused of stealing (= untruthfully) → se le acusó falsamente de robo; (= mistakenly) → se le acusó equivocadamente de robo
they sometimes test falsely positive → algunas veces dan resultados positivos falsos
she had been falsely diagnosed with cancer → se equivocaron cuando le diagnosticaron cáncer

2. (= insincerely) → fingidamente
he was being falsely enthusiastic about the idea → se mostró fingidamente entusiasmado con la idea
she sounded falsely cheerful → parecía fingir la alegría, su alegría sonaba falsa

falsely [ˈfɔːlsli] adv [accuse] → à tort; [claim] → à tort
false move n → faux pas m
one false move and ... → un faux pas et ...
false negative n (result from medical test) → résultat m faussement négatif
false positive n (result from medical test) → résultat m faussement positif
false start n

(to process, project) → faux départ m

(in race) → faux départ m
false teeth npl (British) (= dentures) → dentier m

falsely

adv

(= wrongly) interpret, understand → falsch; accused, convicted, imprisoned → zu Unrecht

(= untruthfully, mistakenly) claim, report, think → fälschlicherweise

(+adj: = artificially) → künstlich

falsely [ˈfɔːlslɪ] adv (accuse) → a torto; (state) → falsamente