What's the difference between baloney and false?

Baloney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
  • (2) Sapin, in a French twist on Johnson’s “baloney” jibe, said: “There are four freedoms and they cannot be separated.
  • (3) This is pure baloney: the bottom line is that all the major technology companies outside of China are American.
  • (4) Sometimes it occupies the high ground and sometimes it is camped so far down-market, amid celebrity trivia and Big Brother baloney, as to be almost out of sight.
  • (5) Farage describes the Hitler Youth song allegation as “baloney”.
  • (6) Farage said any suggestion of singing Hitler youth songs was "complete baloney", but admitted: "Of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things."
  • (7) An interview with the author, Jessica Porter, ran in a British broadsheet on Monday and was as full of baloney as the diet itself is full of wholegrains, which, Porter claims Gillian McKeith-style, "literally have intelligence" – a claim that begs the snark, "Well, comparatively, perhaps."
  • (8) Hinting that he would like to take on the EFDD role, Nuttall said: “If the opportunity became available, of course, as leader of Ukip, I would like to do it, but it would only be done with agreement of Nigel.” Talk of a coup was “complete baloney”, he said.
  • (9) In the spin-room after the debate, Romney's spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom responded to the "pious baloney" line with a sly reference to the embarrassing disclosure last year that Gingrich has a $500,000 account with Tiffany's, presumably having lavished jewellery on his wife Callista.
  • (10) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , out for revenge after being on the receiving end of a $4m (£2.6m) advertising battering from Romney in Iowa, did not hold back, accusing him of lying, being unelectable and, in a phrase likely to be remembered long after the campaign is over, of talking "pious baloney".
  • (11) You don’t want to be in that kind of situation, so you gotta be quiet about it, so you don’t go down that route.” While shackled and interrogated over the next three days, police fed Terry only twice, he said, with baloney sandwiches and juice.
  • (12) Baloney!” Cakmakci is the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 951 .
  • (13) Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, told Sky News on Thursday that the EU’s position that there was an automatic trade-off between access to the single market and free movement was “complete baloney”.
  • (14) And George young has taken the bait: "Gary Naylor may be looking for a rise and I'm happy to give it to him - his comment about Ronaldo is utter baloney.
  • (15) John Cakmakci’s response to that argument is simple:“Baloney!
  • (16) Quell is a damaged second-world-war navy vet; groggy on paintstripper liquor, reeling from a broken heart, who falls under the spell of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the baloney-preaching leader of a Scientology-style cult.

False


Definition:

  • (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
  • (superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
  • (superl.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
  • (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
  • (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
  • (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (superl.) Not in tune.
  • (adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • (a.) To report falsely; to falsify.
  • (a.) To betray; to falsify.
  • (a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
  • (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
  • (2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
  • (3) Administration of furosemide might result, on occasion, in a false positive test for pheochromocytoma.
  • (4) Antigen of HK-9 strain created in this area a characteristic pattern with all sera containing the specific anti-E. histolytica antibodies and, therefore, EITB can be used for excluding false positive results in ELISA.
  • (5) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
  • (6) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
  • (7) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
  • (8) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (9) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
  • (10) The incidence of false positive and false negative cells seen after hybridization of tritiated Y-probes to control lymphocyte cultures suggests that it should normally be possible to distinguish morphologically normal male and female pre-embryos with samples of three to six interphase nuclei.
  • (11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (12) Pseudohyponatremia is a falsely low serum sodium measurement.
  • (13) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
  • (14) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
  • (15) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
  • (16) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (17) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (18) In three cases, no arterial lesion was detected (3 false-positive findings).
  • (19) DNA-samples from HSV-infected and uninfected Vero cells have been examined concurrently to provide standard "HSV-positive" and "HSV-negative" samples, the latter guarding also against false positives caused by cross-contamination.
  • (20) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.