False - English meaning

verb

Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.

Usage examples:

She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him

verb

Past simple and past participle of concoct

Usage examples:

He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food., he concocted a story about wor…

verb

To make something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned

Usage examples:

He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food.

adjective

Guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others.

Usage examples:

A deceitful politician

adjective

Marked by deliberate deceptiveness

adjective

Dishonest or hiding the truth

Usage examples:

Deceitful behaviour, he never struck me as deceitful before.

verb

Deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain.

Usage examples:

I didn't intend to deceive people into thinking it was french champagne

verb

Present participle of deceive

Usage examples:

The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones., the sound of the door closing…

verb

To persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage

Usage examples:

The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones., the sound of the door closing…

adjective

Giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.

Usage examples:

He put the question with deceptive casualness

adjective

Making you believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

It's deceptive - from the outside the building looks small, but inside it's very big.

adjective

Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or organization to which one has obligations.

Usage examples:

She was accused of being disloyal to the government

adjective

Not loyal; acting to hurt someone you are expected to support

Usage examples:

His sisters thought that his autobiography was disloyal to the family.

adjective

Not supporting someone that you should support

Usage examples:

Disloyal to his sisters thought that his autobiography was disloyal to the family.

adjective

Pulled or twisted out of shape; contorted.

Usage examples:

Then he took a few steps in her direction, his face distorted with rage.

verb

Pull or twist out of shape.

Usage examples:

A grimace distorted her mouth

adjective

Pulled into or appearing as a strange or unnatural shape

Usage examples:

His face was distorted in agony., everything looks distorted through the glass., this report gives …

verb

Present participle of double-cross

Usage examples:

The diamond thief double-crossed his partners and gave them only worthless fake jewels.

noun

The act of cheating or tricking someone by hiding your real intentions

Usage examples:

Several high-ranking officials were named in the scandal, accused of fraud and double dealing.

adjective

Wrong; incorrect.

Usage examples:

Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions

adjective

Based on false information and therefore wrong; false

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An erroneous assumption

adjective

Wrong or false

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An erroneous belief/impression

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

verb

Past simple and past participle of fabricate

verb

To invent or produce something false in order to deceive someone

Usage examples:

He was late, so he fabricated an excuse to avoid trouble., he claims that the police fabricated evi…

adjective

Disloyal, especially to a spouse or partner.

Usage examples:

Her faithless lover

adjective

Not loyal and not able to be trusted

Usage examples:

A faithless husband

adjective

Not faithful sexually to your marriage partner or usual sexual partner

Usage examples:

A faithless husband

adjective

Based on a mistaken belief.

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Fallacious arguments

adjective

Not correct

Usage examples:

His argument is based on fallacious reasoning.

adjective

Not working or made correctly; having defects.

Usage examples:

A faulty brake

adjective

Not working correctly, or not correct

Usage examples:

Faulty brakes, his arguments were based on faulty reasoning.

adjective

Not working correctly

Usage examples:

The company recalled over 500,000 cars last year because of a faulty connection in their new model.…

adjective

Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated.

Usage examples:

Reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the minister

adjective

Invented and not true or existing; false

Usage examples:

He registered at the hotel under a fictitious name.

adjective

Not real

Usage examples:

Executives invented fictitious sales to justify amounts transferred offshore., many of the internet…

adjective

Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.

Usage examples:

A fatally flawed strategy

verb

Mar, weaken, or invalidate (something).

Usage examples:

The computer game was flawed by poor programming

adjective

Having or containing one or more faults, mistakes, or weaknesses

Usage examples:

Don't rush to another flawed conclusion., badly/deeply/seriously flawed these results were the outc…

adjective

Lacking exactness and accuracy of expression or detail.

Usage examples:

The witness could give only vague and imprecise descriptions

adjective

Not accurate or exact

Usage examples:

As all the data have not yet been collected, the figures are still imprecise.

adjective

Not accurate.

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False or inaccurate descriptions of goods

adjective

Not correct, or not exact

Usage examples:

Your information is inaccurate – i was born in 1956, not 1965., inaccurate measurements, [ c ] rose…

adjective

Not completely correct or exact, or not able to do something correctly or exactly

Usage examples:

Wildly inaccurate their estimate of the cost of the project was wildly (= extremely) inaccurate., a…

adjective

Frequently changing; variable or irregular.

Usage examples:

The exact dimensions aren't easily measured since they are inconstant

adjective

Not staying the same, especially in emotion, behaviour, or choice of sexual partner

Usage examples:

An inconstant lover

adjective

Not in accordance with fact; wrong.

Usage examples:

The doctor gave you incorrect advice

adjective

Exhibiting (or failing to exhibit) political correctness.

Usage examples:

It is not politically correct to laugh at speech impediments

adjective

Not correct; not accurate

Usage examples:

He charged that the news story was factually incorrect and demanded an apology., for each question …

adjective

Not quite accurate or correct.

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An inexact description

adjective

Not known in detail or not completely accurate

Usage examples:

Economics is an inexact science.

adjective

Not exact or not known in detail

Usage examples:

Estimates of the numbers involved remain inexact.

noun

A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury.

Usage examples:

She spent the rest of her life as an invalid

verb

Remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness.

Usage examples:

He was badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry

adjective

(of an official document or procedure) not legally recognized because it contravenes a regulation or law.

Usage examples:

The will was declared invalid and the children were entitled to the estate

verb

Create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

Usage examples:

He invented an improved form of the steam engine

verb

Past simple and past participle of invent

verb

To design and/or create something that has never been made before

Usage examples:

The first safety razor was invented by company founder king c. gillette in 1903.

adjective

Deceitful and untrustworthy.

Usage examples:

A perfidious lover

adjective

Unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty

Usage examples:

She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treacherous.

Usage examples:

When his traitorous actions were discovered, he was imprisoned

adjective

Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.

Usage examples:

A treacherous gestapo agent

adjective

Tending to betray

adjective

(of the ground or the sea) extremely dangerous, esp. because of bad weather conditions

Usage examples:

Freezing rain made driving treacherous., he was treacherous, or at least sneaky.

adjective

Not to be trusted

Usage examples:

He’s a two-faced cheater.

adjective

Not faithful.

Usage examples:

We speak of faithful, and unfaithful portraits.

adjective

Not loyal or able to be trusted

Usage examples:

An unfaithful friend

adjective

Having no foundation or basis in fact.

Usage examples:

Her fear that she had cancer was unfounded

adjective

(of a claim or piece of news) not based on fact; untrue

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Unfounded rumors

adjective

If a claim or piece of news is unfounded, it is not based on fact

Usage examples:

Our fears about the weather proved totally unfounded.

adjective

Not in accordance with fact or reality; false or incorrect.

Usage examples:

These suggestions are totally untrue

adjective

Not true; false

Usage examples:

Her remarks were irresponsible and untrue.

adjective

Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect.

Usage examples:

Companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures

adjective

Not telling the truth completely, or containing or telling lies

Usage examples:

He claimed that the report was inaccurate, untruthful, and incomplete., we are all very upset by th…

adjective

Not correct or true; incorrect.

Usage examples:

That is the wrong answer

adverb

In an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.

Usage examples:

What am i doing wrong?

noun

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

Usage examples:

I have done you a great wrong