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Falseness

The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

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Apocryphalness 76% connected

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

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Hypocrisy 76% connected

The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's r…

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Infidelity 76% connected

Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine o…

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Unreality 76% connected

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

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Distort 74% connected

Distorted; misshapen.

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Distort 74% connected

Distorted; misshapen.

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Fake 74% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Fake 74% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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False 74% connected

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

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False 74% connected

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

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Falsify 74% connected

To make false; to represent falsely.

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Falsify 74% connected

To make false; to represent falsely.

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Hollow 74% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Hollow 74% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Falsity 92% connected

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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Fickleness 92% connected

The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.

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Hollowness 92% connected

State of being hollow.

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Inconstancy 92% connected

The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness.

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Insincerity 92% connected

The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollown…

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Verity 94% connected

The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.

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Verity 94% connected

The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.

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