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false

[fawls]

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adjective

not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.

uttering or declaring what is untrue: a false witness.

not faithful or loyal; treacherous: a false friend.

tending to deceive or mislead; deceptive: a false impression.

not genuine; counterfeit.

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based on mistaken, erroneous, or inconsistent impressions, ideas, or facts: false pride.

used as a substitute or supplement, especially temporarily: false supports for a bridge.

Biology. having a superficial resemblance to something that properly bears the name: the false acacia.

not properly, accurately, or honestly made, done, or adjusted: a false balance.

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inaccurate in pitch, as a musical note.

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adverb

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dishonestly; faithlessly; treacherously: Did he speak false against me?

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Idiom

12.

play someone false, to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English fals < Latin falsus feigned, false, orig. past participle of fallere to deceive; reinforced by or reborrowed from Anglo-French, Old French fals, feminine false < Latin

Related forms

false·ly, adverb

false·ness, noun

half-false, adjective

qua·si-false, adjective

qua·si-false·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. mistaken, incorrect, wrong, untrue. 2. untruthful, lying, mendacious. 3. insincere, hypocritical, disingenuous, disloyal, unfaithful, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous. 4. misleading, fallacious. 5. artificial, spurious, bogus, forged. False, sham, counterfeit agree in referring to something that is not genuine. False is used mainly of imitations of concrete objects; it sometimes implies an intent to deceive: false teeth; false hair. Sham is rarely used of concrete objects and usually has the suggestion of intent to deceive: sham title; sham tears. Counterfeit always has the implication of cheating; it is used particularly of spurious imitation of coins, paper money, etc.

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Example Sentences

News about false arrests, convictions and imprisonments.

Technology creates many hopes, some false and some realizable.

His thesis that many scientific papers come to false conclusions is not new.

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News about false arrests, convictions and imprisonments.

Technology creates many hopes, some false and some realizable.

His thesis that many scientific papers come to false conclusions is not new.

Captured this image while a couple of false clown fish were inquisitive over my strobe lights.

False positives and exaggerated results in peer-reviewed scientific studies have reached epidemic proportions in recent years.

Please dont judge a life by the false books and words society shows you.

We deposed the false queen and created a situation where the bees could make a new leader.

Wow your friends with a chemically goosed false egg.

When they checked phone records, they discovered multiple calls to the false witnesses, who confessed to the police.

Hauser reported false data and then insisted that it be used.

The telescope's advocates say junking it now would be a false economy.

While real diamonds are made of carbon, jewellers make false diamonds out of zirconium dioxide crystals, aka cubic zirconia.

It is based on false premises presented as offensively as possible.

Unfortunately, though, some people might think this is a bit of false advertising.

Canadian health officials say tests showing new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome in their country are false.

Her personal budgeting rang false to many students, especially the ones who were living the sort of life she was play-acting.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods.

Subjects were given a memory test known as the false fame paradigm, in which they were asked to recite a list of unfamiliar names.

Statements from individuals with heavy accents, though, were still more likely to be perceived as false.

All data-mining systems fail in two different ways: false positives and false negatives.

Most of those notions proved false or impractical, and the jury is still out on the rest.

Presenting factual data completely without context is no better than presenting false data.

False claims still pervade the supplements industry.

Heed the warnings of professionals, even if they later turn out to be false.

But add some false color produced by satellite sensors, and the result is stunning.

Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness.

New research shows the persuasive power of a false confession.

Contestants tended to eye the barrier respectfully: the punishment for false starts was a thrashing from official whip bearers.

Of course, many people concerned with privacy simply opt to give false information.

The dichotomy of religion and science is a false one.

For blacks, racing provided a false sense of freedom.

False premises lead to false conclusions, and unfortunately are a great waste of time.

Not necessarily to be proven true, but rather to be proven false.

Twice, my colleague thought it would be the last time she would see him and it turned out to be a false alarm.

But after years of false starts, security systems based on biometrics-human characteristics such as faces, hand shapes and.

The bundles often had false heads, textiles stuffed.

We know not from where such false rumours hath arisen.

Problem is, it has a track record of false alarms, undermining public.

The point of the study was to show that false positives are commonplace in neuroimaging research.

Weeks and his colleagues were shocked to find the eggs of the false spider mite were laced with bacteria.

The brain holds on to false facts, even after they have been retracted.

The study of misinformation and false memories have consistently shown that human beings are highly susceptible to suggestion.

Strict rules about trading in the bidder's or target's shares prevent the creation of false markets.

Then decide whether each sentence below is true or false.

In addition to tricking customers, the false labels could misrepresent the threat posed by overfishing.

Ankori's lawyers countered that the review contained false and defamatory statements and threatened to sue.

Critics argued that investors had drawn false comfort.

The images are shown in false color to make water visible against the land.

How to tell the difference between true and false conspiracy theories.

They are fringed with drugstore-variety false eyelashes and framed by matted gray brows made.

State laws make it illegal for an employer to make a false claim in order to avoid paying unemployment compensation.

The good news is that he has not been constrained by false modesty and has chosen six of his own pieces for this book.

The artwork, in turn, inspired false reports of an ancient-giant discovery.

By answering their e-mail, even to give false information, you may unwittingly fall into the trap.

Colleagues at other campuses have also run into last-minute buzz saws, including false accusations.

After the list was ruled to be bogus, a fresh inquiry began into the false accusations.

Panda births are difficult to predict and reports of false pregnancies are common.

It's debate, it's experimentation, and it's verification of claims that might be false.

After some false starts, the automotive industry rolls out vehicles with systems that really do look beyond the headlights.

Seventeen of the incidents were dismissed as false alarms.

Others feel that cloning gives a false sense of security that populations of endangered animals can easily be rekindled.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the.

The lack of false positives is particularly encouraging in light of existing detection methods.

Remember that a student or a colleague can make false accusations at any time in any number of different and creative ways.

Student and graduate questionnaires were audited for multiple or false entries.

Her favorite was a chimney with a false back, behind which a dumbwaiter could be raised or lowered with the yank of a lever.

In addition, the cost of false alarms is only a phone call to the cardholder asking him to verify a couple of purchases.

Sometimes that's a false dichotomy, sometimes it's not.

After several false dawns, online banking has grown steadily if modestly over the past five years.

Chief among these is the confirmation, after a long wait and several false starts, that planets exist outside our solar system.

Unnecessary feature, and sure enough, a false rumor.

You're presenting false choices here: either allow laptops or be a crappy, overbearing, power-hungry prof.

The unusually smooth path of economic progress since the second world war had lulled them into a false sense of continuity.

He notes that the big expensive false reports tend to be generated and propagated by big moneyed interests.

After decades of false starts, planners are finally beginning to make headway on what could become the largest, most.

Six cases involved the faulty parts or false certification of test results.

The only problem is that the domain name registration information appears to be false.

It is false in that it is generally not used for the design work.

Make a false accusation, and the last sound you'll hear are gunshots.

Picking a crook out of a cast of thousands is a lot harder, and false alarms are more common.

Regular expressions evaluate text data and return an answer of true or false.

They're too busy getting sued by their guns-for-hire, for racial discrimination and for false imprisionment.

The other advantage of the swarm approach is in reducing false alarms.

There are also charges of bounced checks, false advertising and unethical business practices.

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false (fɔːls)

—*adj*
1.	not in accordance with the truth or facts
2.	irregular or invalid: a false start
3.	untruthful or lying: a false account
4.	not genuine, real, or natural; artificial; fake: false eyelashes
5.	being or intended to be misleading or deceptive: a false rumour
6.	disloyal or treacherous: a false friend
7.	based on mistaken or irrelevant ideas or facts: false pride; a false argument
8.	(prenominal) (esp of plants) superficially resembling the species specified: false hellebore
9.	serving to supplement or replace, often temporarily: a false keel
10.	music
	a. (of a note, interval, etc) out of tune
	b. (of the interval of a perfect fourth or fifth) decreased by a semitone
	c. (of a cadence) interrupted or imperfect

—*adv*
11.	in a false or dishonest manner (esp in the phrase play (someone) false)

[Old English fals, from Latin falsus, from fallere to deceive]

'falsely

—*adv*

'falseness

—n

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Word Origin & History

false

c.1200, from O.Fr. fals, faus, from L. falsus "deceived, erroneous, mistaken," pp. of fallere "deceive, disappoint," of uncertain origin. Adopted into other Gmc. languages (cf. Ger. falsch, Dan. falsk), though English is the only one in which the active sense of "deceitful" (a secondary sense in L.)

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has predominated. Related: Falsely. Falsies "padded brassiere" first recorded 1943.

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