Falsehood

What do we mean by falsehood?

An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy. noun

The practice of lying. noun

Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy. noun

The fact or quality of being false; falseness; dishonest purpose or intention; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy: opposed to truthfulness. noun

That which is false; a false representation in word or deed; an untruth; a lie: as, the tale is a series of falsehoods; to act a falsehood. noun

False manifestation or procedure; deceitful speech, action, or appearance; counterfeit; imposture; specifically, in law, a fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth to the prejudice of another. noun

Synonyms Falsehood, Falseness, Falsity; untruth, fabrication, fiction. Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, falsehood standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; falseness, for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his falseness to his oath; and falsity, for the quality of being false without blame: as, the falsity of reasoning. noun

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

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

Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. noun

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. noun

The property of being false. noun

A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie noun

Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful. noun

The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting noun

A false statement noun

The property of being false.

A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.

Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.

Words that are spelled similarly to falsehood:
falsehood, falsehoods.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word falsehood:
avarice, deceit, abstinence, propositional, slander, malice, perjury, horus, uttered, untrue, propositions, greed, truth, defamation, malicious, melodrama, contradiction, honesty, deception, assertion, proposition, distortion, logical, hatred, repealed, false, judgment, shakespeare, lie, deliberately, statements, theft, myth, evil, excluded, fletcher, propaganda, divine, sin, mere, facts, statement, humanity, interference, logic, proof, tale, lying, conspiracy, moral, true, conversation, agree, beliefs, consequence, fraud, islam, objective, bound, egyptian, sentence, argument, criteria, claims, muhammad, discussion, fear, guardian, belief, claim, impossible, cannot, affair, object, denied, exposed, traditions, shall, article, knowledge, anything, speech, poem, knew, involvement.

Words that rhyme with falsehood:
good, wood, should, hood, would, could, livelihood, likelihood, neighborhood, childhood, wormwood, motherhood, dogwood, brotherhood, redwood, plywood, stood, hollywood, understood, misunderstood, withstood, rosewood, fatherhood, hardwood, driftwood, adulthood, ironwood, deadwood, cottonwood, manhood, goode, greenwood, parenthood, statehood, make good, knighthood, boxwood, leatherwood, isherwood, wildwood, ravenswood, boyhood, firewood, for good, womanhood, wedgwood, victimhood, fleetwood, heartwood, nationhood, sherwood, blackwood, schuld, atwood, girlhood, hazelwood, greasewood, elwood, oakwood, softwood, sainthood, beechwood, marwood, logwood, babyhood, corkwood, underwood, eastwood, robin hood, dagwood, tanglewood, allgood, heywood, smallwood, teakwood, devilwood, common good, do good, elmwood, brentwood, in all likelihood, early childhood, wedgewood, collingwood, westwood, haywood, osgood, inglewood, silkwood, balsa wood, saw wood, second childhood, englewood, littlewood, dawn redwood, edgewood, kenwood, pulpwood, rockwood, arrow wood.

Adjectives that are often used to describe falsehood:
deliberate, utter, direct, malicious, wilful, much, absolute, gross, palpable, downright, infamous, injurious, obvious, intentional, outright, mere, impudent, monstrous, positive, defamatory, conscious, evident, complete, pure, manifest, simple, notorious, necessary, wicked, actual, logical, blatant, barefaced, audacious, abominable, apparent, sheer, double, flagrant, shameless, historical, grossest, unblushing, literal, scandalous, plain, unmitigated, malignant, cruel, dangerous, bold, atrocious, essential, transparent, willful, fundamental, circumstantial, outrageous, pious, gratuitous, systematic, enormous, ridiculous, horrible, plausible, hypocritical, absurd, calculated, brazen, pernicious.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective falsehood:
truth, breeding, look, proceeding, life, blush, demand, instruction, mongers, fabricator, pass, the, triumph.

Words that sound like falsehood:
falsehood, falsehoods, full speed, fulwood, fullwood, fasted, full-sized, full sized, fallowed, fassade, feels good, false god, false hair, false oat, fasid, falsing, falster, fisted, feasted, faulted, felted, filleted, foisted, fellated, false heather, full skirt, fusted, facade, followed, folded, facet, fastened, fancied, falsely, fatherhood, falsified, felid, fathead, falso, facit, feel bad, feelgood, fassett, fielded, falsie, false rue, falce, fallot, feel-good, falcate, fasit, filicide, feel good, fulgid, facete, falsa, falsest, felt hat, filho, falls out, field hut, full load, phyllode.