contrary to fact
Example Sentences
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Of the 120 million citizens of the I those who see these words will nearly all believe them to be flatly contrary to fact, will promptly forget them.
From Time Magazine Archive
It rejected the State Department's accusations on the grounds that they were "unfounded and contrary to fact."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not all //statements fall into this category, only those that are undeniably contrary to fact.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
This being a fancy contrary to fact, I will put it this way—that in every city there is always some one period of human history more readily recoverable than any other.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
It usually denotes some doubtful contingency, or some supposition contrary to fact.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
