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False meaning
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | Based on factually incorrect premises. | Spurious, artificial.
Synonyms of False
Example sentences (20)
If "this sentence is false" is true, then the sentence is false, but if the sentence states that it is false, and it is false, then it must be true, and so on.
I regret that this false association, false accusation, false assertion, has been made against President Ali, Dr. Ashni Singh, and himself.
There is also a risk that these scans give a false positive – things that look like disease but aren’t. up to 97 false positives per 1,000 scans) are particularly susceptible to false positive results.
And so, that lack of evidence tells me that the false statement or false confession that he gave Anthony Curry is absolutely false,” he said.
He was charged in a 24-count indictment in November 2016 with wire fraud, mail fraud, theft of government funds, making false statements, filing false reports with federal election officials and filing false tax returns.
Actus reus The actus reus of perjury might be considered to be the making of a statement, whether true or false, on oath in a judicial proceeding, where the person knows the statement to be false or believes it to be false.
However, that the liar sentence can be shown to be true if it is false and false if it is true has led some to conclude that it is "neither true nor false".
But, Howe notes, this produces “tons of false positives and tons of false negatives,” and “makes it basically impossible to have a scientific discussion about reproduction.
Egan pleaded guilty to eight counts of making false statements and six counts of making false reports against the injured parties between 2016 and 2020.
It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application, the maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for making a false statement is a Level 5 fine on the standard scale.
Likewise, StandWithUs builds a false allegation that I “retaliated” against Jewish students, a claim that GW, the Dean’s office, and my program knows to be categorically false.
Luz Scott of Clovis, an acquaintance of the women, has been charged with false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment.
Mr Gibbs said that: “With each allegation that’s discredited, the possibility, the reality, that false allegations, even apparently convincing false allegations, really do happen.
On February 12, 2022, the state charged Mr Quayson with five counts; deceit of a public officer, forgery of a passport, knowingly making a false statutory declaration, perjury, and false declaration.
We heard the same false claim in 2006, from Stephen Harper, who solemnly told us he had a way to constitutionally ban gay marriage, all the while knowing that to be false, but making his claim for the same reasons as in the first paragraph, above.
A copy of the arrest warrant that the lawyers included as an exhibit in their request for a new hearing shows Smirnov was arrested on the same charges: making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record.
False Emergency Communication, Gordon Rd, Apr 29, 9:02 PM, a male, 62, of Fairfax County, was arrested for false emergency communication to police.
He said in documents and in court that some of the pollster queries not only violated the gag order, but that a few of the questions spread false information about the case, and could foster a "false impression" amongst potential jurors.
He told a judge in LA this week that Smirnov was pleading not guilty to making false statements to federal agents and creating a false and fictitious record.
It’s not a false thing; a lot of the medicines make you feel kind of false.