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Definition of Falsehood
Falsehood

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.

Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.

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Falsehood Quotations

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Falsehood Translations

falsehood in German is Unwahrheit
falsehood in Latin is subjectio
falsehood in Spanish is falsedad
falsehood in Swedish is osanning


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