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false adj. 1 untrue, unfactual, untruthful, wrong, amiss, mistaken,
erroneous, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, faulty,
flawed, invalid, unsound, unreal, imaginary, fictitious,
spurious: The explorers gave a completely false picture of the
local inhabitants. 2 untrue, untruthful, lying, misleading,
fallacious, fabricated, made-up, concocted, mendacious,
untrustworthy, fraudulent, meretricious, deceptive, deceitful,
treacherous, Colloq phoney or US also phony: The testimony of
this witness is completely false. 3 counterfeit, imitation,
simulated, sham, forged, fraudulent, fake, artificial,
synthetic, manufactured, unnatural, spurious, bogus, ersatz,
factitious, mock, pseudo, Colloq phoney or US also phony: Your
false teeth look almost real. 4 sham, feigned, affected,
insincere, faked, manufactured, counterfeit(ed): Don't shed any
false tears over me when I'm gone. 5 illogical, fallacious,
unsound, invalid, flawed, faulty: That conclusion could come
only from false reasoning.
falsehood n. lie, fib, prevarication, untruth, fabrication, misstatement,
fiction, (fairy) tale, story, distortion, Colloq cock-and-bull
story, Slang Brit load of codswallop: That was a complete
falsehood about the goings-on in the attic, wasn't it?
falsify v. fake, alter, distort, misstate, misrepresent, twist, Colloq
fudge, trump up, Brit cook: The tax inspector found that the
accounts had been falsified.
falsity n. untruthfulness, mendacity, mendaciousness, fraudulence,
deceptiveness, deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, spuriousness,
speciousness, casuistry, hypocrisy, insincerity, falseness: The
prosecution was unable to prove the falsity of her statement.
fame n. renown, repute, reputation, celebrity, illustriousness,
superiority, pre-eminence, stardom, prominence, eminence, glory,
name, notoriety, acclaim: Randolph's fame has spread far and
wide.
familiar adj. 1 well-known, common, commonplace, everyday, ordinary,
current: That's a familiar melody. 2 frequent, usual,
customary, habitual, routine, traditional: He strolled along
his familiar route through the trees. 3 friendly, affable,
close, intimate, sociable, social, free, free and easy, relaxed;