What's the difference between falsehood and misstatement?
Falsehood
Definition:
(n.) Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
(n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
(n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
(n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s impossible to automate fully the process of separating truth from falsehood, and it’s dubious to cede such control to for-profit media giants.
(2) Unfortunately, this explosion is mild compared with the number of myths, falsehoods and downright lies which have accompanied these ideas.
(3) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
(4) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
(5) The UK's biggest retailer began legal proceedings against the paper and its editor, Alan Rusbridger, for libel and malicious falsehood.
(6) Mayer blasted “falsehoods” she said had been circulating in the media, including reports that the company had spent $7m on its holiday party and $4m on a food program.
(7) Just as the Victorian science revolution played havoc with religious superstition, so the information revolution can now play havoc with political falsehood.
(8) In response Maguwu gave himself up and was charged with publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the economic interests of the state.
(9) Among the nine instances of alleged falsehoods, it is alleged that Coulson falsely claimed that he did not know his royal editor Clive Goodman was involved in hacking, that he did not know payments were being paid to Mulcaire for hacking and that he had not heard Mulcaire’s name prior to his arrest.
(10) So what are the facts and falsehoods about our new fivers?
(11) "They promote a falsehood, the homophobic idea of 'therapy' to change the sexual orientation of lesbians and gay men."
(12) I now had to learn about the law of malicious falsehood – the company claimed I personally had deliberately constructed a lie – as well as a libel.
(13) When it was a good story it was worth doing the extra work, but much of the time it would turn out to be a lie.” The woes of fact-checking Trump are now well known, but they weren’t then, or even when Mulcahy first wrote about them publicly: her 1988 book about her time at Page Six devotes an entire half a chapter to Trump’s fondness for falsehoods.
(14) Abbott has in an interview with Fairfax unleashed a fresh tirade about Julie Bishop , accusing her of peddling falsehoods about the events leading up to Turnbull’s ascension.
(15) But how many more times must we be subjected to the utter falsehood that somehow Cameron had to “meet the challenges of economic crisis”, as Vernon Bogdanor writes?
(16) Michael Cohen told the Associated Press on Saturday that Schneiderman's lawsuit was filled with falsehoods.
(17) While the internet and social media can lead to the rapid spread of falsehoods and dubious claims, they can also be used to check quickly such claims and expose lies ( Trump and Brexit herald a brave new word: post-truth , 16 November).
(18) The New York Times was right to call out the White House on obvious falsehoods, but its big headline was part of the reactive news coverage that Trump gamed throughout his campaign.
(19) And MSNBC still has quite a ways to go before it matches Fox's demonstrated willingness to spew outright falsehoods in pursuit of its partisan agenda.
(20) During a trip to Kiev, US secretary of state John Kerry claimed Moscow was “working hard to create a pretext for Russia to invade further,” and “hiding its hand behind falsehoods, intimidation and provocations.” Kerry also scoffed at reports of a news conference held by Vladimir Putin in which he appeared to deny a Russian military presence in Crimea.
Misstatement
Definition:
(n.) An incorrect statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) We will be delving into [the report], we will be reviewing that to see what is in there is accurate, which is inaccurate, which is a misstatement, which are examples that may be factual, may not be factual.” “Other parts of the country have shown outrage at this type of behavior by police,” said Mara Brown of Cleveland, an emergency medical technician, “but Cleveland has a history of using many types of devices – from the business leaders ignoring things to control of the media to political leaders favoring the status quo – to keep things quiet.” At the grocery store in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood where Jones was killed hardly anyone was around on Monday afternoon.
(2) We wish to correct the record, apologize to Dr. Birnstiel and Dr. Busslinger for this misstatement, and alert our readers to their letter, which is printed in our Letters section on page 243.
(3) But more specifically, this abuse can also specifically harm the shareholders, most of whom will be almost wholly unaware of the risks the companies in which they invest are taking: for example, the company earnings may be misstated, which will mean that the share price is overstated.
(4) But to America’s unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.
(5) Sanders also said Clinton “has misstated my view” on gun control.
(6) Adrian Bailey told BBC Radio 5 Live that Tesco executives could be asked to explain its £250m misstatement of first-half profits which wiped £2bn off its stock market value.
(7) Sanders argued: “The issues that impact people of South Carolina and the south are the same issues that impact the people of Vermont; that is that the middle class of our country is disappearing.” The Vermont senator, who told the Boston Globe’s editorial board on Thursday: “I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything,” made both explicit and veiled criticisms of Clinton over her late-to-the-party opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, her reliance on Super Pacs and for “misstating” his position on gun control.
(8) Last week Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland , two of Britain’s biggest banks, set aside a total of £900m for settlements related to rigging of the foreign exchange market, and the Serious Fraud Office launched a criminal investigation into a misstatement of profit guidance at Tesco .
(9) So why did all these fine firms miss what Hewlett-Packard now claims was a misstatement of Autonomy's accounts?
(10) The 1991 paper by Persinger and Makarec, while posing some interesting theoretical and speculative questions, misstates the magnitude of the effect size in the validation of the Hemisphericity Questionnaire and draws some unwarranted conclusions.
(11) "Fundamentally, the complaint fails to identify any fraud – establishing no material misstatements, no identified victims, and no actual harm," Barclays said in its response to the suit.
(12) The act, they said, would "help to blaze a trail of truthfulness and accurate disclosure in what has become a jungle of falsification, unjustified secrecy, and misstatement by statistic".
(13) Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC’s enforcement division, said: “Dark pools have a significant role in today’s equity marketplace, and the firms that run these venues must ensure that they do not make misstatements to subscribers about their material operations.” Barclays, which has a big operation in New York, said the bank was pleased to resolve the case.
(14) The Obama administration has admitted misstatements on the part of UN ambassador Susan Rice and others in the immediate wake of the attacks, which were initially portrayed as a spontaneous raid when in fact they were multi-pronged and organized.
(15) In its rebuttal, Barclays said: "Fundamentally, the complaint fails to identify any fraud – establishing no material misstatements, no identified victims, and no actual harm."
(16) "DeSmogBlog has received no direct communications from the Heartland Institute identifying any misstatement of fact in the "Climate Strategy" document," it said.
(17) The case boiled down to Drew's misstatements in her MySpace profile.
(18) Because something that we so often forget in the dialogue about security versus privacy is [that it is] really a misstatement of the issue, which is liberty versus security.
(19) General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, lied in 2012 that the NSA does not hold data on US citizens , and repeated similar misstatements, under oath, to Congress about the program: We're not authorized to do it [data collection on US citizens], nor do we do it.
(20) The same investigation found Price misstated the timing and value of his purchases in several instances.