falsehood
Example Sentences
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"Anyone with a big social media following has a potential profit-taking opportunity if they spread the right falsehood at the right time."
From Barron's • Jun. 13, 2026
British policy toward China, Lord Patten continued, had rested on a "falsehood" that "in order to do business with them, we must avoid saying anything they don't like or doing anything that they don't like".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
To secure conviction, prosecutors must prove a falsehood was made “knowingly and willfully” and be “materially” false, fictitious or fraudulent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Before we get to what happened after that, let’s note that this nonexistent removal order wasn’t even the only falsehood Judge Xinis identified in her ruling.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2025
Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing falsehood
A Web of Lies
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We Were Liars
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The Misfits
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