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 .


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