How to Use falsehood in a Sentence

falsehood

noun

• In July, a tweet made the rounds spreading a falsehood about voting.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• But the message, the army clarified hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Supporters of Trump, backed by an online army, pushed the falsehood that the election was stolen.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• All four of them go after the same thing, this truth/falsehood issue, and blur between the two, which is how the world has approached me for so many years.
  — Nick Hilden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Yet Adler, not unlike others, left his mark on that falsehood.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• But even Emmer has worked to spread election falsehoods.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Readers wouldn’t need to look too hard to find the falsehood themselves, the sheriff’s office noted.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• There was a time when Mr. Santos expressed regret for some of those falsehoods.
  — Michael Gold, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Trump has long attempted to promote the falsehood that a very large number of Black people love him.
  — Helen Bezuneh, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2023
• Bailey bought into the falsehood as well and also voted to get rid of Shanna.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 21 Feb. 2022
• Fighting falsehood is all that matters if democracy is to survive, and Draper comes with the fiercest weapon yet: the truth.
  — Amanda Uhle, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• Stock market sayings often have a core of wisdom – and sometimes a grain of falsehood.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• But most language-spewing A.I.s have no notion of truth or falsehood.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2022
• If we humans feed it a lie, AI will use that falsehood as fuel for greater distortions.
  — Jamie Merisotis, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• There's also the falsehood on his campaign website in which Santos claimed his mother was in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
  — CBS News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Before the riot, Trump and his allies spread the falsehood that Pence somehow could have overturned the election results.
  — Michael Kunzelman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
• A bit simplistically, the film seems to be about the falsehoods of today’s showbiz and stardom.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• There is certainly no obvious concern about what the anger that was stemming from the belief in those falsehoods might lead to.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• These tools risk baking in and amplifying the falsehoods and biases present in their sources.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
• Moon was long said to be the last Chinese person in Humboldt County — a falsehood, as a few Chinese men lived in very remote, rural parts.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
• The letter says those reassurances were based on falsehoods.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Unlocking the key to exposing that falsehood could help Gorski debunk a thousand quacks in one fell swoop.
  — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Ultimately, the Supreme Court proved just as unable—or perhaps just as unwilling—to look beyond the falsehoods spun by Kennedy and his lawyers.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The post undercut alarmist climate narratives, so it was wrongly tagged as a falsehood.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
• The falsehoods about Epps were referenced by other commentators on the network, the complaint said.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Errors can pop up because of the data that’s used (the internet is hardly immune from falsehoods) or the computer code.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2023
• The idea that hymens bleed on first vaginal intercourse is also a widespread and harmful falsehood.
  — Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022
• For their part, Meta and Google have reversed policies against election-rigging falsehoods and stopped punishing the politicians who spread them.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• Santos could well be censured, as many of his fellow Republicans have called on him to resign over his falsehoods.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• Civil rights lawyers and members of Emmett’s family say the memoir is littered with falsehoods.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024