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Falsification   /fˌælsəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Falsification

noun
1.
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something.  Synonyms: disproof, refutation.
2.
A willful perversion of facts.  Synonym: misrepresentation.
3.
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting.  Synonym: falsehood.
4.
The act of determining that something is false.  Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation.






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"Falsification" Quotes from Famous Books



... you—to-night, mind, not to-morrow—a statement bristling with figures which the Board of Construction cannot deny. You will be able, in a stirring leading article, to express the horror you undoubtedly feel at the falsification of the figures, and your stern delight in doing so will probably not be mitigated by the fact that no other paper in London will have the news, while the matter will be so important that next day all your beloved contemporaries ...
— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr

... universal adult suffrage to serve 4-year terms) elections: last held 18 March and 1 April 2001 and 17 and 31 October 2004; international observers widely denounced the October 2004 elections as flawed and undemocratic, based on massive government falsification; pro-Lukashenko candidates won every seat, after many opposition candidates were disqualified for technical reasons election results: Soviet Respubliki - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NA; Palata Predstaviteley - percent of vote by ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... the grammateus, who on the morrow or the day following it would be obliged to repeat his opinion before the King and the judges, certainly would not have allowed himself to be carried away by mere compassion to so great a falsification of ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... to improve the humour of "Don Quixote" by an infusion of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux's operators did, is not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of prize beef, but an absolute falsification of the spirit of the book, and it is a proof of the uncritical way in which "Don Quixote" is generally read that this worse than worthless translation—worthless as failing to represent, worse than worthless as misrepresenting—should have been ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



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