Adverb
In a false manner.
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He protested his innocence to the end, claiming he had been falsely charged and convicted.
This could not be more falsely stated.
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Our insensitive laughter echoes even more falsely now.
And on none of them does the name ring more falsely than on Robert Southey.
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that some states saw gas prices fall to just $1.98 on Wednesday.
RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.
Adverb
in an insincerely false manner
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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
in a false manner
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to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely