falsely

Example Sentences

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She also faced the primary backlash tactic: Falsely accusing victims of lying.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2025

Falsely claiming a pandemic-related financial problem can result in a charge of perjury, which is a felony punishable by fines and up to four years in prison.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022

Falsely accused of rape in 2002 when he was just 16, and pressured by his scandalously ineffective lawyer to accept a no-contest plea, he sacrificed a guaranteed football scholarship to the University of Southern California.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2019

Falsely claiming to speak for the tribe, they agreed to removal in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Thomson the poet, who exclaims in his Seasons— Falsely luxurious!

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest