adv
Meaning 1
In a false manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He protested his innocence to the end, claiming he had been falsely charged and convicted.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: false
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
falsely
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adverb
Meaning 2
in an incorrect manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incorrectly
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in an insincerely false manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English falsly, falsliche, equivalent to false + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: falsament — in a false manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 不正確的 /不正确的 (bù zhèngquè de) — in a false manner
- Dutch: valselijk — in a false manner
- Finnish: virheellisesti — in a false manner
- Finnish: väärin — in a false manner
- Finnish: valheellisesti — in a false manner
- French: faussement — in a false manner
- Galician: falsamente — in a false manner
- German: fälschlicherweise — in a false manner
- German: falsch — in a false manner
- Hindi: झूठमूठ (jhūṭhmūṭh) — in a false manner
- Hungarian: hamisan — in a false manner
- Italian: falsamente — in a false manner
- Japanese: 不誠実に (fuseijitsu ni) — in a false manner
- Khmer: មិនពិត (mɨn pɨt) — in a false manner
- Kyrgyz: жасалма (jasalma) — in a false manner
- Polish: błędnie — in a false manner
- Portuguese: falsamente — in a false manner
- Russian: непра́вильно (neprávilʹno) — in a false manner
- Russian: ло́жно (lóžno) — in a false manner
- Russian: оши́бочно (ošíbočno) — in a false manner
- Spanish: falsamente — in a false manner
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