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noun

Falsehood n.

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. "Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it."

A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.

Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. "Betrayed by falsehood of his guard."

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. "For his molten image is falsehood." "No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper."

Synonyms: Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Falsehood" Quotes from Famous Books

... to pace the floor as he continued: "'Rid us and deliver us, from the hands of strange children—whose mouth speaketh vanity, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.' Rahal, could there be a better description of Russia—'her right hand of falsehood, her mouth speaking vanity?' David put the very words needed in our mouths when he taught us to say, 'rid us of such an enemy, and of all who strike hands with him!' Yes, rid us. ...

— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... George Grenville, who had it in his power to prevent what has happened to your brother. Nothing could be more repugnant to all the principles he has ever most avowedly and publicly professed—but he has opened my eyes—such a mixture of vanity and meanness, of falsehood(667) and hypocrisy, is not common even in this country! It is a ridiculous embarras after all the rest, and yet you may conceive the distress I am under about Lady Blandford,(668) and the negotiations I am forced to employ to avoid meeting ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... been loyal and honourable—that no efforts had been made to press a Cobourg upon the attention of the Spanish court; this too celebrated person thus convicting himself of premeditated bad faith, and of resorting to accusations and falsehood to vindicate a policy which he had falsely and wilfully initiated, or, at all events, pursued, when ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... the noblest of his race. Men said that he was proud; but he could not look round him without having something to be proud of; that he was stern and harsh to his sailors: but it was only when he saw in them any taint of cowardice or falsehood; that he was subject, at moments, to such fearful fits of rage, that he had been seen to snatch the glasses from the table, grind them to pieces in his teeth, and swallow them: but that was only when his indignation had been aroused by some ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... say, you naughty boy? and where did you hear such a falsehood as that? is that one of your friend Charlie's inventions, after all the kindness I have ...

— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

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