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单词 falsehood
释义
falsehood
(fɔːlshʊd )
Word forms: falsehoods
1. uncountable noun
Falsehood is the quality or fact of being untrue or of being a lie.
She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.
Synonyms: untruthfulness, deception, deceit, dishonesty  
2. countable noun
A falsehood is a lie. [formal]
He accused them of knowingly spreading falsehoods about him.
Synonyms: lie, story [informal], fiction, fabrication  
Quotations:
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truthG.C. Lichtenberg
Collocations:
outright falsehood
This was either a delusion or an outright falsehood.
Times, Sunday Times
These may include propaganda - politically loaded content - or outright falsehoods and forgeries.
Times, Sunday Times
Both scholarly facts and news stories get modified through popular transmission, often to the point of outright falsehoods.
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Some say that much of the list has been debunked, and a few entries are outright falsehoods.
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Some of the claims seem to be outright falsehoods.
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