falsehood

false·hood

F0024300 (fôls′ho͝od′)n.1. An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.2. The practice of lying.3. Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.

falsehood

(ˈfɔːlsˌhʊd) n1. the quality of being untrue2. an untrue statement; lie3. the act of deceiving or lying

false•hood

(ˈfɔls hʊd)

n. 1. a false statement; lie. 2. something false, as an untrue idea or belief. 3. the act or practice of telling lies; mendacity. 4. lack of conformity to truth or fact; falsity. [1250–1300]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	falsehood - a false statement untruth, falsitystatement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"dodging, scheme, dodge - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickerylie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truthfable, fabrication, fiction - a deliberately false or improbable accountdeception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehoodcontradiction in terms, contradiction - (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"true statement, truth - a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
	2.	falsehood - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeitingfalsificationknavery, dishonesty - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealingframe-up, setup - an act that incriminates someone on a false chargesophistication - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

falsehood

noun1. untruthfulness, deception, deceit, dishonesty, prevarication, mendacity, dissimulation, perjury, inveracity (rare) She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.2. lie, story, fiction, fabrication, fib, untruth, porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang), misstatement He accused them of knowingly spreading falsehoods about him.Quotations
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth" [G.C. Lichtenberg]

falsehood

noun1. An untrue declaration:canard, cock-and-bull story, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.Informal: fish story, tall tale.Slang: whopper.2. An erroneous or false idea:erroneousness, error, fallacy, falseness, falsity, untruth.3. The practice of lying:inveracity, mendacity, perjury, truthlessness, untruthfulness.

Translations

说谎

false

(foːls) adjective1. not true; not correct. He made a false statement to the police. 不真實的 不真实的2. not genuine; intended to deceive. She has a false passport. 假的，虛偽的 假的3. artificial. false teeth. 人造的 人造的4. not loyal. false friends. 無信義的 无信义的ˈfalsehood noun (the telling of) a lie. She is incapable of (uttering a) falsehood. 說謊 说谎ˈfalsify (-fӕi) verb to make false. He falsified the accounts. 偽造 伪造ˌfalsifiˈcation (-fi-) noun 偽造 伪造ˈfalsity noun 謊言 慌言false alarm a warning of something which in fact does not happen. 一場虛驚 一场虚惊false start in a race, a start which is declared not valid and therefore has to be repeated. 錯誤的起步 错误的起步