falsehood
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That's the thesis of a recent paper called "The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood" by the Danish political scientists Michael Bang Petersen and Mathias Osmundsen and American anthropologist John Tooby.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021
Falsehood was his stock in trade, and they were enthusiastic franchisees.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2020
Michiko Kakutani is the author of “The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump,” released in paperback last month.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2019
Instead, they could do worse than to look at an unloved old play called "Double Falsehood; or The Distressed Lovers."
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2016
It was at this very period that an unpublished essay of mine, “On Truth and Falsehood in an Extra-Moral Sense,” came into being.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Vocabulary lists containing falsehood
A Web of Lies
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We Were Liars
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The Misfits
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