Thesaurus / falsity
FEEDBACKEXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Argument is that form of discourse which has for its object the proof of the truth or falsity of a proposition.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERBut it is easy to refute all these useless reasonings and to show the falsity of all these evidences.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERThe actual proceedings of the King in Council prove the injustice and falsity of such insinuations and statements.
THE LOYALISTS OF AMERICA AND THEIR TIMES, VOL. 1 OF 2EGERTON RYERSONIt was this which filled the old poets and seers with religious horror; for men dared to suspect the falsity of the sun.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOThey are not so false as the theory, because nothing can in falsity quite equal that.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. III. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEYou will follow falsity, and think it truth, you unfortunate man or nation.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. III. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEThe truth or falsity of these stories of the peones I must leave to the inclination of the reader.
MEXICOCHARLES REGINALD ENOCKHortis is of opinion that the word casu indicates the change of route necessitated by the falsity of Niccol da Montefalcone.
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDYEDWARD HUTTONThe human niche where the idea of a God must stand, was in Richard's house occupied by the most hideous falsity.
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALDThere is the question, of course, of the truthfulness or falsity of the various slanders which had such a tremendous effect.
THE SECRET GLORYARTHUR MACHENSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 15, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO FALSITY
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- unctuousness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
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