falsehood
pronunciation
How to pronounce falsehood in British English: UK [ˈfɔ:lshʊd]
How to pronounce falsehood in American English: US [ˈfɔlsˌhʊd]
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- Noun:
- a false statement
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Word Origin
- falsehood (n.)
- c. 1300, falshede, "deceitfulness," also "a lie; that which is false," from false + -hood. Formed on the same pattern are Old Frisian falschede, Dutch valschheid, German Falschheit, Swedish falskhet. Former noun forms in English, now extinct, included falsage "wrongdoing" (late 15c.), falsdom "deceitfulness, treachery; a lie" (c. 1300), fals-lek "falsehood" (early 14c.), falsshipe "deceitfulness, dishonesty" (c. 1200).
Example
- 1. These are eternal truths about falsehood .
- 2. The thing that initially excited me was : " ah-ha ! A falsehood ! "
- 3. And speaking morally , something like cowardice and falsehood ?
- 4. I am merely playing by a system of rules that cut across truth and falsehood .
- 5. Did you hurt her feelings or did you spare her and still avoid a falsehood ?