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• n  a false statement
• n  the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood.
• It's as much a period of self-growth as of self-denial: Muhammad reportedly said, "He who does not abandon falsehood in word and action in accordance with fasting, God has no .
• If those prove true, it kicks the jams out from under the administration's claim that the presence of a falsehood in the President's case against Iraq was simply the product of .

• falsity
• untruth
• falsification

• truth

News & Articles

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• Global warming concerns unjustified
  To distract concerned citizens from wondering about the government listening to our phone calls, the IRS targeting President Obama's enemies and all the other current scandals, our president has raised another total falsehood — global warming. Since Obama's latest proposals will cost American jobs and slow the economy, everyone needs to know the facts: read more
  June 28, 2013 - IlliniHQ.com
• ANOTHER VIEW: Pelosi's ambiguity shows abortion rests on fiction
  Regardless of what side of the abortion debate one sits, the fact is Roe rests on a scientific falsehood.
  June 28, 2013 - The Westerly Sun
• Are Pandora's Attackers Lying, Being Disingenuous or Just Plain Stupid?
  You shake my hand, while you're pissing on my leg/I'm cutting you lose, I don't need this misery/Your soul is toxic, you ain't no friend of mine --Social Distortion, "Far Behind" NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- So musicFIRST is out with its response to Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren's Wednesday afternoon blog post where he issued a challenge: The first falsehood being disseminated is that Pandora is ...
  June 27, 2013 - TheStreet.com

Quotes

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• Scott McClellan in USA Today
  I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood,McClellan writes. "It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively. I didn't learn that what I'd said was untrue until the...
• Lawrence Frank in SportingNews.com
  The implication was that it was being concealed, which would be a falsehood,Frank said. "We're not going to disclose every nick, bruise or bump that's not preventing a guy from playing."
• Robert Luskin in Boston Herald
  Mr. Rove never made such a request to her or anyone else,Luskin said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "Had '60 Minutes' taken the trouble to contact Mr. Rove before circulating this falsehood, he would have told them the same thing."