Falsely

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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           Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {incorrectly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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