falsehood 音标拼音: [f'ælsh
, ʊd]
n . 谎言,虚假
谎言,虚假
falsehood n 1 :
a false statement [
synonym : {
falsehood }, {
falsity }, {
untruth }]
[
ant : {
true statement }, {
truth }]
2 :
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (
of documents or measures etc .)
or counterfeiting [
synonym :
{
falsification }, {
falsehood }]
Falsehood \
False "
hood \,
n . [
False -
hood ]
1 .
Want of truth or accuracy ;
an untrue assertion or representation ;
error ;
misrepresentation ;
falsity .
[
1913 Webster ]
Though it be a lie in the clock ,
it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour ,
if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it . --
Fuller .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue ;
a departure from moral integrity ;
a lie .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Treachery ;
deceit ;
perfidy ;
unfaithfulness .
[
1913 Webster ]
Betrayed by falsehood of his guard . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 .
A counterfeit ;
a false appearance ;
an imposture .
[
1913 Webster ]
For his molten image is falsehood . --
Jer .
x .
14 .
[
1913 Webster ]
No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper . --
Milton .
Syn :
Falsity ;
lie ;
untruth ;
fiction ;
fabrication .
See {
Falsity }.
[
1913 Webster ]
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "
falsehood ":
blague ,
canard ,
cock -
and -
bull story ,
credibility gap ,
deceit ,
dishonesty ,
dissimulation ,
distortion ,
erroneousness ,
error ,
exaggeration ,
fabrication ,
fairy tale ,
fakery ,
fallaciousness ,
fallacy ,
falseness ,
falsity ,
farfetched story ,
farrago ,
feigning ,
fib ,
fibbery ,
fibbing ,
fiction ,
fish story ,
flam ,
flimflam ,
fraud ,
ghost story ,
half -
truth ,
inveracity ,
legal fiction ,
lie ,
little white lie ,
lying ,
mendaciousness ,
mendacity ,
misrepresentation ,
misstatement ,
mythomania ,
pious fiction ,
pretense ,
prevarication ,
pseudology ,
sham ,
slight stretching ,
story ,
tale ,
tall story ,
tall tale ,
taradiddle ,
trumped -
up story ,
truthlessness ,
untrueness ,
untruth ,
untruthfulness ,
unveraciousness ,
white lie ,
yarn FALSEHOOD .
A willful act or declaration contrary to truth .
It is committed either by the willful act of the party ,
or by dissimulation ,
or by words .
It is willful ,
for example ,
when the owner of a thing sells it twice ,
by different contracts to different individuals ,
unknown to them ;
for in this the seller must willfully declare the thing is his own ,
when he knows that it is not so .
It is committed by dissimulation when a creditor ,
having an understanding with his former debtor ,
sells the land of the latter ,
although he has been paid the debt which was due to him .
2 .
Falsehood by word is committed when a witness swears to what he knows not to be true .
Falsehood is usually attendant on crime .
Roscoe ,
Cr .
Ev .
362 .
3 .
A slander must be false to entitle the plaintiff to recover damages .
But whether a libel be true or false the writer or publisher may be indicted for it .
Bul N .
P .
9 ;
Selw .
N .
P .
1047 ,
note 6 ;
5 Co .
125 ;
Hawk .
B .
1 ,
c .
73 ,
s .
6 .
Vide Dig .
48 ,
10 ,
31 ;
Id .
22 ,
6 ,
2 ;
Code ,
9 ,
22 ,
20 .
4 .
It is a general rule ,
that if a witness testifies falsely as to any one material fact ,
the whole of his testimony must be rejected but still the jury may consider whether the wrong statement be of such character ,
as to entitle the witness to be believed in other respects .
5 Shepl .
R .
267 .
See Lie .
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