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Recent Examples of falsity That order sparked an outcry from scientists who pointed out scientific falsities in that definition. Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025 Chris Gair, Thompson’s attorney, argued Tuesday that a falsity is an untruth about an objective fact while a misleading statement depends on what a reasonable person hears. Ella Lee, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025 This is mainly the case because what's being peddled by these champions of freedom is spin, self-serving falsity, and whole-cloth fabrications. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025 For them, the gap between his 2018 debut studio album Die Lit and 2020’s Whole Lotta Red was a grueling exhibition of falsities and hearsay. Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for falsity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsity
Noun
  • Researchers noted the positive effects of ecstatic epilepsy and synthesized fifty-three theoretical models of delusion.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 21 June 2025
  • The series focuses on the dynamics of one Danish family and the stripping away of their—and our—delusions about climate change, status, exile, and separation.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Of course, as with everything involved in this sextortion scam, that’s a lie.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Newsom is seeking $787 million — the same amount that Fox News paid to settle a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems, a company that claimed the network repeatedly aired false allegations about its voting machines to boost Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was rigged.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Every look with such an irregular desire is in our Savior’s opinion a virtual adultery. . . .
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • The sixth commandment in Catholic teaching prohibits adultery.
    Ruth Graham, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The six-parter, to debut July 14, follows six groups of friends, and six historical cases of murder and treachery among them.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
  • But amid the bloodbaths and treacheries, Westeros still penciled in time for a little romance — some more compelling than others (Jon and Ygritte > Jon and Daenerys).
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This deception couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s debt.
    Thomas Kahn, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Unlike earlier studies that uncovered evasion or deception, this research exposed a more alarming phenomenon: models calculating that unethical behavior was a justifiable strategy for survival.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Learn the secrets behind wands, wishing trees and other plant folklore and myths.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • Ursula Lindsey The Moroccan writer’s works are a bracing corrective to the myth of his city as a glamorous, bohemian playground.
    Sophia Rosenfeld, The New York Review of Books, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Both Van Poppel and Taylor, who injured his shoulder in a bar fight in 1993 and never reached the major leagues, are cautionary tales on the dangers of taking a high school pitcher in the first round.
    Melissa Lockard, New York Times, 7 July 2025
  • Sula by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison’s suite of stunning historical novels includes Beloved, A Mercy, and this 1973 tale of a friendship between Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • There have also been issues with infidelity, the source alleged.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • This disregard often pushes them toward infidelity, without thinking of its consequences.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025

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“Falsity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsity. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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