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- noun Plural form of
falsehood .
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Examples
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Mr. Santorum directly confronted Mr. Romney about an ad financed by a so-called Super PAC supporting the front-runner and called on Mr. Romney to repudiate what he called falsehoods in the spot.
GOP Race Intensifies Patrick O'Connor 2012
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For the umpteenth time, El-Rufai attacked the administration of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for what he described as falsehoods against his person.
unknown title 2009
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Specifically, Reid dismissed accusations that the legislation would create "death panels" to inform people when they won't be covered, or that it would provide insurance for illegal immigrants, or make abortions more readily available - all of which he called falsehoods circulated by insurance and drug companies opposed to the legislation.
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Resorting tooutdated stereotypes, defamation of character, and outright falsehoods is not.
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Resorting tooutdated stereotypes, defamation of character, and outright falsehoods is not.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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It was, of course, deplorable that any one should treat the truth as an article temporarily and excusably out of stock, but they felt gratified that the vivid accounts they had given of Mr. Scarrick's traffic in falsehoods should receive confirmation at first hand.
literature 2007
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Even people who got caught in falsehoods have resolved their cases with no apparent penalty for the deception.
April 2005 2005
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He took time in that press conference today, Anderson, to say that his long-term enemies had put out what he called falsehoods, and that any recent allegations that have been printed in the local paper, or talked about in the last week, are absolutely not true.
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He took time in that press conference today, Anderson, to say that his long-term enemies had put out what he called falsehoods, and that any recent allegations that have been printed in the local paper, or talked about in the last week, are absolutely not true.
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Perhaps the pressure of holding up the admin on falsehoods is getting to them.
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