False
Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
Not in tune.
Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
To report falsely; to falsify.
To betray; to falsify.
To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
To feign; to pretend to make.
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False Quotations
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
False Translations
false in Afrikaans is verkeerd, vals
false in Danish is falsk
false in Dutch is loos, bedrieglijk, dubbelhartig
false in German is unwahr
false in Italian is fasullo, imitato
false in Latin is reproba, falsus
false in Norwegian is falsk, uekte
false in Portuguese is falso
false in Spanish is impropio, falso
false in Swedish is falsk, osann
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