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How to pronounce FALSE in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
Derivation falseness
Type Words
Synonyms off-key, sour


a false (or sour) note.
Type Words
Synonyms fake, faux, imitation, simulated


false teeth.
Type Words
Synonyms mistaken
Derivation falsity, falseness


a false assumption.
Type Words
Synonyms untrue
Derivation falseness, falsity


a false friend.
Type Words
Synonyms delusive
Derivation falsity, falseness


false hopes.
Type Words
Synonyms faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably


his wife played him false.
Type Words
Derivation falseness, falsity


false pretenses.
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a suitcase with a false bottom.
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a false start.
a false alarm.
Type Words
Derivation falsity, falseness


gave false testimony under oath.
false tales of bravery.

Examples of FALSE

FALSE
She called her doctor and drank some water, thinking it was another false alarm.
From the thenewstribune.com
Davis, Altman and Bradford are all charged with making false entries in records.
From the tennessean.com
He said the rest were false alarms or were canceled before firefighters arrived.
From the kansas.com
Al-Hussayen, meanwhile, was charged with visa fraud and making false statements.
From the cnn.com
The city responds to about 25,000 alarms a year, and 98 percent are false calls.
From the kansas.com
He pleaded guilty late last year to charges of tax evasion and false statements.
From the dailyherald.com
Both were false utilitarian Utopias that in practice merely empowered dictators.
From the forbes.com
The old thinking of hiring salespeople to generate demand is a false assumption.
From the forbes.com
Mr Kamoka was eventually jailed in 2007 for providing funds and false passports.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Faithlessly: in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
  • Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
  • Arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
  • Erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
  • Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"
  • Delusive: inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
  • Fake: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"
  • Designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
  • FALSE is an esoteric programming language designed by Wouter van Oortmerssen in 1993, named after his favorite Boolean value. It is a small Forth-like stack-oriented language, with syntax designed to make the code inherently obfuscated, confusing, and unreadable. ...