Definition of falsehood
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Examples of falsehood in a Sentence
the line between truth and falsehood
the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics
Recent Examples of falsehood from the Web
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A less consequential falsehood is that technology means children do not need to learn facts or learn from a teacher—instead they can just use Google.
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A new study reveals the mathematics underlying this phenomenon, modeling how information overload can erode an individual's ability to distinguish high-quality information from its opposite, causing falsehoods to propagate.
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For helping rip off more than 700 victims with these and other falsehoods from 2009-2015, the five were convicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Miami on fraud charges.
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Popular culture upholds this falsehood while often showing only one type of disabled body— a white male wheelchair user, like in Me Before You, The Fundamentals of Caring and ABC’s Speechless.
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And the president frequently embellished details during his speech, or told outright falsehoods.
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Jay Nixon substantiated The Star’s findings: that Song and at least one other faculty member had boosted the Bloch Schools’ rankings with falsehoods and exaggerations.
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And look, there’s a strong case for aggressive, in-your-face reporting on the threats posed by Jones and his falsehoods (in fact, I’m cited in Jones’ Wikipedia entry for doing that), but this doesn’t seem to be that story.
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Nevertheless, anti-vaccine groups have stepped up their effort to spread frightening falsehoods and dangerous misinformation about vaccines and measles, the Washington Post reports.
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First Known Use of falsehood
13th century
FALSEHOOD Defined for English Language Learners
falsehood
playDefinition of falsehood for English Language Learners
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: an untrue statement
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: the quality of not being true or accurate : false quality
FALSEHOOD Defined for Kids
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