Falsely
['fɔ:lsli]
Definition
(adv.) in an incorrect manner; 'to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely'.
(adv.) in an insincerely false manner; 'a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
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Examples
- Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Behind the parties has grown up the political machine--falsely called a machine, the very opposite of one in fact, a natural sovereignty, I believe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one? Plato. The Republic.
- Why, yes, I said, of course they answer truly; how can the Muses speak falsely? Plato. The Republic.
- It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You treated me falsely, ungratefully, and cruelly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We should insist that the word was inseparable from the intention, and that we must not be 'falsely true,' i. Plato. The Republic.
- Whoever claimeth falsely another for his father, or another for his master, the curse of God and the angels and of all mankind shall rest upon him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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