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- the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics
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- several falsehoods in the witness's testimony that may be grounds for perjury
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- fable,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsity,
- fib,
- lie,
- mendacity,
- prevarication,
- story,
- tale,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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- scientists eventually demonstrated the falsehood of the claim that prehistoric fish did not evolve lungs and legs
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- a cynic who believes that politics are a veritable fount of falsehood
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“Falsehood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsehood. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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