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English Dictionary: falsely by the DICT Development Group
2 results for falsely
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
falsely
adv
  1. in an insincerely false manner; "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"
  2. in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
    Synonym(s): falsely, incorrectly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Falsely \False"ly\, adv.
      In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or
      treacherously. [bd]O falsely, falsely murdered.[b8] --Shak.
  
               Oppositions of science, falsely so called. --1 Tim. vi.
                                                                              20.
  
               Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer.
                                                                              vii. 9.
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