falselyadverb
uk/ˈfɒls.li/us/ˈfɑːls.li/falsely adverb (NOT TRUE)
in a way that is not true:
He claimed, falsely, that he was married.
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True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal
- fairy tale
- faithful
- false
- fictional
- fictitious
- glitter
- gritty
- nominal
- pretend
- proper
- properly
- properly speaking idiom
- pukka
- realistic
- well founded
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falsely adverb (NOT CORRECTLY)
wrongly:
She was falsely accused of shoplifting.
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Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- inaccurate
- invalid 1
- irregular
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
- speak too soon idiom
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falsely adverb (NOT SINCERELY)
disapproving in a way that is not sincere:
She tends to adopt a falsely cheerful tone when she's upset about something.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hokey
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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