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How to use falsehood in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Falsehood means the property of being false. Example: “Don't tell falsehoods.”

Examples of falsehood by meaning

nounA false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.

  • Don't tell falsehoods.
  • The fact checking, which started Sunday, stands in stark contrast to the he-said, she-said nature of most television chatfests, even though PolitiFact’s work takes place well after the facts and possible falsehoods are first uttered on TV.2010 April 12, Brian Stelter, “‘This Week’ Is Adding Online Fact Checks”, in The New York Times
  • Oreskes allowed as much Wednesday, saying the word had not been banned, and adding, "I think one of the big challenges for us will be in situations where the falsehood is repeated so often that it becomes clear, the intent.2017 January 26, Elizabeth Jensen, “The Pros And Cons Of NPR's Policy Of Not Calling Out 'Lies'”, in NPR

nounMendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of lying.

  • O mortal, eschew falsehood and flattery.1963, M. Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, page 7
  • Take off all falsehood.2006 October 7, Jacki Lyden, “Italian Pop Star Takes on U.S. Music Market”, in NPR All Things Considered

More sentences with falsehood

  • Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.From the entry ring
  • The divine truth is stronger than totalitarian falsehoods.From the entry totalitarian
  • The accusation was libelous, full of falsehoods, spite and malice.From the entry libelous
  • I recognized the self-geas against telling a falsehood in the particular conversation.2018, Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos and Operation Luna, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry geas
  • My steady character is irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of my arithmetic.2008 February 19, Garth Mihalcheon, “Ad hominem”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page A15. From the entry untrustworthiest
  • The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly.2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering…. From the entry anti-transmasculinity
  • The social media company, now renamed X, shapes opinion on events from Ukraine to Israel—often by platforming falsehoods.2023 October 28, Simon Kuper, “How to be an oligarch”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry oligarch
  • With one misproof piled on top of another, we end up under an avalanche of falsehoods, distortions, and non-evidence.2013, Tony Burke, Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?. From the entry misproof
  • It is part good, part evil, part falsehood, part truehood.1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56. From the entry truehood
  • You will have an impossible task supporting this with scripture, yet most WOF teachers repeat this falsehood as if it were common knowledge.2018, Daniel Plunkett, Learn to Discern: Recognizing False Teachings In the Christian Church Today, Cambridge, Ohio: Christian Publishing…. From the entry Berean
  • In my brief stay in Johannesburg, I had left a trail of mistruths and, in each case, the falsehood had come back to haunt me.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 81. From the entry mistruth
  • Post-truthism is not chiefly about getting lies accepted as truths but about muddying the waters to the point that it becomes difficult to discern the difference between truth and falsehood.2022 February 22, Moisés Naím, “The Dictator's New Playbook”, in Foreign Affairs. From the entry verifiable
  • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237a. From the entry utterance

Meaning of falsehood

  1. noun The property of being false.
  2. noun A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
  3. noun Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of lying.

Full definition of falsehood

Questions about falsehood in a sentence

How do you use falsehood in a sentence?
Falsehood is used as a noun. For example: “Don't tell falsehoods.”
What is a short sentence with falsehood?
“Don't tell falsehoods.”
What does falsehood mean?
Falsehood means the property of being false.

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