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false
Synonyms and Antonyms of false
- Early reports about the explosion contained much false information.
off base
- George Washington's false teeth were not made of wood but of elephant ivory and cow's teeth.
- The signatures on the documents turned out to be false.
bogus, counterfeit, fake, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), sham, spurious, unauthentic
- a salesman's false smile
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic
double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous
exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
- false advertising that claimed that the vegetables were organically grown when they weren't
- false friends who deserted the prizefighter when all his money was gone
- It turned out that the con man had made false promises of easy profits.
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily
crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, phony (also phoney), sham, spurious
insidious, perfidious, treacherous
artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced
Synonym Discussion of false
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- faithless allies
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- betrayed by false friends
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- disloyal to their country
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- traitorous acts punishable by death
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- a treacherous adviser
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- a perfidious double-crosser
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