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FALSE [fawls] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
false [fawls]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, made up
Synonyms: apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real
Antonyms: accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid
Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake, counterfeit
Synonyms: adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy, forged, framed, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong
Antonyms: actual, genuine, real, valid
Main Entry: affected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: changed in a bad or artificial way
Synonyms: apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural
Antonyms: ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured
Example Sentences
  • News about false arrests, convictions and imprisonments.
  • Technology creates many hopes, some false and some realizable.
  • His thesis that many scientific papers come to false conclusions is not new.
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Main Entry: amiss
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong; defective
Synonyms: awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward
Antonyms: good, right
Main Entry: apocryphal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: questionable; fake
Synonyms: counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unauthenticated, ungenuine, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong
Antonyms: authentic, doubtless, real, true
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake; imitation
Synonyms: bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, phony*, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural, unreal
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended; affected
Synonyms: assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural
Antonyms: genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: arty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended expertise in art; affected interest
Synonyms: affected, deceptive, ephemeral, false, flaunting, illusory, imitative, overblown, popular, popularized, pretentious, pseudo, tasteless
Main Entry: assumed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended
Synonyms: affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real
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