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falsely

adverbattested in dialogue

In a false manner.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a false manner.

    He protested his innocence to the end, claiming he had been falsely charged and convicted.

    This could not be more falsely stated.

    Our insensitive laughter echoes even more falsely now.

    And on none of them does the name ring more falsely than on Robert Southey.

Etymology

From Middle English falsly, falsliche, equivalent to false + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more falsely
superlative
most falsely
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).