(adv.) In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
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.
Forgery
Definition:
(n.) The act of forging metal into shape.
(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you take a forgery to a bank will they give you a real one in return?
(2) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(3) The French financial prosecutor is looking into whether “the calculations constitute forgeries made to justify, after the fact, the wages that were paid”, Le Monde reported .
(4) Key to the case against O’Neill is a letter, allegedly from the prime minister to senior ministers, which suggested O’Neill authorised the payments, but the prime minister dismissed it as a forgery.
(5) The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.
(6) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(7) But the Bangkok Post's interview with an unnamed DSI agent quoted him as saying the country was also attractive because it is relatively easy to enter and leave; "you can negotiate with some law enforcement people"; and – importantly – some local officials have not tended to see the forgery of foreign (as opposed to Thai) passports as a particularly serious offence.
(8) Once the KGB would have spent months planting well-made forgeries.
(9) In contrast to the FBI's aggressive pursuit of Brown, no probe of the Team Themis project was launched – despite a call from 17 US House representatives to investigate a possible conspiracy to violate federal laws, including forgery, mail and wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
(10) Moran faces 21 charges: 15 of false accounting, contrary to the Theft Act 1968, and six of forgery, in which it is alleged she submitted false invoices.
(11) "There was forgery and dishonest concealment of material facts.
(12) There is not the slightest bit of forgery in this case,” he said.
(13) The scheme – backed by Italy FA head Carlo Tavecchio, convicted five times since 1970 for forgery, tax evasion and abuse of office – aims to champion “all acts of honesty”.
(14) The Falkirk report arrives at eight conclusions in its executive summary, leaked to the press and widely interpreted as damning proof of forgery, bullying and "machine politics" by Unite , the union.
(15) Williams, a Nationals MP, expressed his support for a further inquiry, saying he had received evidence of fraud, wrongdoing and forgery.
(16) On Monday evening it emerged that a letter from the taskforce chief, Sam Koim, to the police commissioner, leaked to SBS News , claimed new evidence has emerged – including a forensic analysis of a letter previously dismissed as a forgery by O’Neill – strengthening the case against the prime minister.
(17) Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond.
(18) Also among the dead were an Isis executioner and a forgery specialist.
(19) A Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings, less than a week after French authorities alleged that a terrorist used a similar forgery to enter the Greek island of Leros, before taking part in an attack on the Stade de France in Paris.
(20) That’s fair enough, but you might think they practice some assumption of innocence until proven guilty of passport forgery.