falseness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for falseness
Noun
  • This places the blame on the victim rather than the perpetrator of infidelity.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • These include infidelities, unspoken longings, and thorny questions of land inheritance.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Financial elder abuse victims Financial elder abuse victims suffer affects to their psychological, emotional and physical well-being, such as feelings of betrayal, fear, guilt, depression and anxiety, according to the grand jury report.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025
  • There’s a subtle sense that taking pleasure in domesticity might be a betrayal of my values—as if nurturing children, or even enjoying something as benign as baking, plays into oppressive tropes.
    Samantha Mann, Time, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • But these seductions or deceptions are canceled when the work confronts us with the photographic records of the performative procedure itself—and not only by making the photograph an integral component, the dialectical complement to the material sculptural production.
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • He’s got some deception on the puck and does a good job holding onto it to wait for secondary options to open up, but slows the game down too much.
    Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Directed by Jonathan Li and Choy Man-yu, the film stars Louis Koo as a private detective investigating a complex case involving adultery and murder.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 June 2025
  • Many scandals arise from the occasion of these activities, and adulteries and other outrageous crimes are committed as a clear offence to God, a very serious danger to the souls of those committing them, and a pernicious example to others.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That’s the treachery of this world, that’s the trap.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 24 May 2025
  • Press play below to learn more about Wells’ treachery, and to get a sneak peek at the fugitive interacting with her latest target.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their perfidy is memorialized in the English language, though.
    Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The prior month, Vice President JD Vance had lodged his own complaints about Europe’s alleged perfidy, threatening that the United States might withdraw its security guarantees from Europe if the EU continued to aggressively regulate U.S. tech companies.
    ANU BRADFORD, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lee’s campaign has asserted that a sitting president cannot be criminally prosecuted, except in cases of treason.
    Jong Eun Lee, The Conversation, 29 May 2025
  • The cost of failure would have been death on the grounds of treason.
    Daniel Twining, National Review, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Burden Of Proof Unlike many of the other fallacies, the burden of proof fallacy doesn’t serve to conjure up false narratives, nor to ignore or refute the points that have been made.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • These are straw man fallacies, falsely implying that acknowledging and celebrating the full range of backgrounds, identities and family structures kids bring to the classroom will somehow crowd out instruction time.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
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“Falseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falseness. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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