(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.
Misinform
Definition:
(v. t.) To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
(v. i.) To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(3) The subjects' responses revealed their lack of information as well as a great deal of misinformation.
(4) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(5) Twenty of the girls knew how conception occurs and 24 knew about modern methods of contraception, although none was used; many of them were misinformed.
(6) Nutrition misinformation wastes billions of dollars every year but the greatest harm occurs when needed medical intervention is delayed or ignored.
(7) The most important finding was the considerable misinformation about and noncompliance with malaria prophylaxis.
(8) A total of 376 (25.1%) questionnaires were filled out incorrectly and 63 of these (16.8%) had major misinformation about medical history.
(9) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
(10) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
(11) He acknowledged there had been "failures" and that there was "misinformation and misunderstanding" surrounding the bill.
(12) Nutrition knowledge and misinformation, supplement use, and sources of nutrition information were also investigated.
(13) "As global action on climate change deepens, propaganda aimed at misinforming the public about climate change, and so blunting any action, increases."
(14) Blair is already facing a backlash from Conservative ministers and some on the remain side for arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit.
(15) These highly fragmented replied with the characteristics of misinformation about AIDS are also compatible with situations that could carry risks for the laborers.
(16) All that said, there are still some basic facts to contend with that do suggest many Republican voters believe things that are either misinformed or absurd or both.
(17) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
(18) They point to Education for health as a means for health professionals to prevent problems arising from misinformation to people under medical attendance.
(19) Earlier on Tuesday, one of the leading legislative critics of the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans' phone records, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, attacked both the surveillance and what he described as a "culture of misinformation" by administration and intelligence officials about it.
(20) From the very nature of monitoring physiological quantities there will be much misinformation or 'noise' superimposed on the raw signal obtained from the patient.