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Recent Examples of falsity The conduct of Defendants in publishing these false statements about Taylor, with knowledge of their falsity, for the express purpose of harming Taylor was intentional and despicable. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 Often a gallery was filled with exaggerations, with falsities. Literary Hub, 14 July 2025 Some Americans recognize the lies’ falsity but have decided that some things—their own tribe, their vision for the country—are simply more important than truth. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025 The vaunted single take is, more often than not, actually a falsity, fabricated by clever edits or preening, doing nothing alchemical to the script at hand. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for falsity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsity
Noun
  • As people increasingly turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and life advice, recent incidents have put a spotlight on their potential to feed into delusions and facilitate a false sense of closeness or care.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The music business, theater, Hollywood — these are obvious places to find folks who live in constant delusion, not to mention places Guest was already well familiar with.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One day, tired of the lies, Shane purchased a metal detector.
    John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Like many people, she was taken in by his lies.
    USA Today, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unhappy unions loom large in the novel, which teems with adultery.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Thou shalt not commit adultery.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When does compromise become treachery or defeat?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Could Juno be behind this treachery, as payback for David destroying her spy corporation and for changing his oldest daughter into a killer?
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, perhaps the issue is the deception and not the expense.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • But with this shift comes a new era of digital deception.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These subsidies were cunning, part of a decades-long effort to keep alive the myths that offshore wind energy is nearly self-sufficient and generates increasingly inexpensive electricity.
    Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.
    Jane Ciabattari September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shot in location across Scotland, Grow is billed as an exuberant tale full of giant pumpkins, madcap characters and a little girl who just might be a pumpkin-growing savant.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • As in all magical realism tales, these house spirits are an unquestioned part of the family’s reality, so Nora puts these handy men to work fixing up their home, if not their lives.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This type of infidelity can stem from dissatisfaction in the relationship or a desire for something different.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Lorenzo must deal with the repercussions of his infidelity and the weight of all the manipulation.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Falsity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsity. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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