falsely
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from
The 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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from
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
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