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Example sentences for: falsehoods
How can you use “falsehoods” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Disingenuously but effectively, Bennett claimed that Walsh was trying to blackmail Weinberger into telling falsehoods about Ronald Reagan.
recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath," said Rep.
Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality).
Milton Friedman, a conservative economist and proponent of free-market solutions, pointed out in a recent Journal of Economic Literature article that the myth of small businesses' job-creating potency is one of the most durable falsehoods of America's political economy.
Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .