falsehood
noun
false·hood
ˈfȯls-ˌhu̇d 
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
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
There can be lots of falsehoods that the AI assumes to be utterly true.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
In everything from politics to health, falsehoods propagated across social media cause immense harm.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Newsmax agreed to pay Smartmatic $40 million in the conservative cable network's settlement of the defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election falsehoods, per a regulatory filing.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Falsehood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/falsehood. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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falsehood
noun
false·hood
ˈfȯls-ˌhu̇d
1
: an untrue statement : lie
2
: the habit of lying
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