Antonyms for falsifies


Grammar : Verb
Spell : fawl-suh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔl sə faɪ


Definition of falsifies

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "to prove false," from Middle French falsifier (15c.), from Late Latin falsificare (see falsify). Meaning "to make false" is from c.1500. Earlier verb was simply falsen (c.1200). Related: Falsified; falsifying.
  • verb alter, misrepresent
Example sentences :
  • Brother Michael falsifies history as much as he does religion.
  • Extract from : « The Religious Life of London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
  • It substitutes a different self for the old, it falsifies systems of thought and deteriorates systems of life.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • The tendency which falsifies judgement in this respect is that of idealisation.
  • Extract from : « Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego » by Sigmund Freud
  • Moreover, inaccurate as Hugo often is, it is never the inaccuracy that falsifies.
  • Extract from : « La Lgende des Sicles » by Victor Hugo
  • He is a fencer of language, that falsifies his blow and hits where he did not aim.
  • Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
  • It is the special psychology of leisure and luxury that falsifies life.
  • Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton
  • I will not quote Bryant literally, because he is an enemy in this war, and falsifies his own precepts.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • The event often falsifies our hopes, and we find pain where we had thought to find pleasure.
  • Extract from : « The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) » by Charles Paul de Kock
  • Let him who falsifies without shame, be chastised without mercy.
  • Extract from : « Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works » by Anonymous
  • Self-consciousness, in many characters that possess it, deflects and falsifies conduct; and so does the dramatic instinct.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Synonyms for falsifies

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