suggestio falsi

Example Sentences

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Mere concealment is not actionable unless it amounts not only to suppressio veri, but to suggestio falsi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

This part of the epistle, a cunning combination of the suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, was given to all the others who were in the plot to copy.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

This is a clear case of suggestio falsi by Mr. Stephens, who is usually so careful and reliable and, even here, so guarded in his language.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.

But, speaking generally, where the translator has not to intimate stanzas—where he has on the contrary to intimate that there are none—rhyme seems at first sight an intrusion and a suggestio falsi.

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

Her ethics on the suggestio falsi were weak.

From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)