falsely

3 definitions found

falsely - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Falsely \False"ly\, adv.
     In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or
     treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." --Shak.
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           Oppositions of science, falsely so called. --1 Tim. vi.
                                                    20.
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           Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer.
                                                    vii. 9.
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falsely - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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" [syn: falsely, incorrectly]

falsely - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsely":
     amiss, apparently, artificially, astray, beguilingly, deceptively,
     delusively, erroneously, factitiously, fallaciously, faultfully,
     faultily, in disguise, in name only, misleadingly, mistakenly,
     nominally, ostensibly, plausibly, seemingly, spuriously,
     synthetically, trickily, truthlessly, under cover of,
     under false colors, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untrue, untruly,
     unveraciously, wrong, wrongly