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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:

Bennett, evidently troubled and hurt by my former employer Steven Brill's ugly portrayal of him, had asked if we could get together for a private and personal conversation to help him understand why a man whose fairness I had mistakenly touted to Bennett would write a catalog of falsehoods and distortions about Bennett and Starr, painting them both as criminals.
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 .
There's no right to say, "Your money or your life" to a stranger in a dark alley; there's no right to spread intentional falsehoods about your product or your enemy's character.
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.