Word Meanings - FALSEHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: FALSEHOOD

1. 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. Fuller. 2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. 3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. Shak. 4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Milton. Syn. -- Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FALSEHOOD)

• Fiction
• Invention
• fabrication
• creation
• figment
• fable
• falsehood
• romance
• myth
• Lie
• Falsehood
• untruth
• subterfuge
• evasion
• fib
• fiction
• falsity
• Mendacity
• lying
• untruthfulness
• deception
• prevarication
• duplicity
• Untruth

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