(a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
(a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
(a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
(a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
(a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
(a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
(v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(2) "To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.
(3) Then there were attempts to falsify votes," she said.
(4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
(5) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(6) Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were accused of aiding Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, and of falsifying news reports in order to undermine Egyptian national security.
(7) These models generate falsifiable predictions about the pattern of risk in relatives of affected individuals.
(8) Wood was brought before the employment tribunal after a third volunteer told PHE, the body that designed the screening process, that Wood had falsified Cafferkey’s temperature on the form she had to fill out on arrival at Heathrow.
(9) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
(10) We conclude that global retests should be preferred to selective ones so that the perimetric results are not falsified.
(11) In the runup to the election, analysts predicted that falsifying votes cast from home (citizens can request electoral workers to make home visits) would be the most likely method of cheating, but the percentage of such votes was reportedly small.
(12) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(13) Educators in health-related fields are particularly sensitive to academic misconduct because undergraduate students who falsify academic work in such fields can go on to endanger the health and well being of the very people they are meant to assist.
(14) But news that two of the passengers on the flight were travelling on passports stolen in Thailand – one belonging to Italian Luigi Maraldi, who lost it last August when he left it as collateral for a motorbike rented in Phuket, and the other to Austrian Christian Kozel, who reported his lost in the same area some 18 months earlier – has focused attention on the country's booming trade in stolen and falsified passports.
(15) Two experiments on whispered and mouthed lists, with or without simultaneous broadband noise, falsified expectations derived from the theory of precategorical acoustic storage.
(16) They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
(17) Doctors were allegedly recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
(18) Preoperative application of a bromocriptine therapy may falsify the results too.
(19) Illicit-drug users may attempt to falsify results by in vitro adulteration of specimens.
(20) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.
Spoof
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(2) James Hornsby Abington, Northampton • Every 1 April, Guardian readers need to beware of the spoof story.
(3) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(4) Private Eye's all-time sales high came in 1986, when it recorded a circulation of 238,000 at the height of the popularity of the Dear Bill letters that spoofed Denis Thatcher.
(5) Bowie’s 1980 track Fashion has provided the soundtrack for more catwalk shows than I could ever hope to list here, and of course Bowie made a cameo appearance – judging a walk-off between two competing male models – in Ben Stiller’s brilliant 2001 fashion spoof Zoolander.
(6) Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary, has shown she can tackle comedy by appearing in a spoof trailer for a Law & Order-style cop show called Tough Justice.
(7) Her spoof video I'm Fucking Matt Damon became a YouTube mega-hit and last month won her a Webby award for "best actress" .
(8) Even if you don't get the gag on the way in – the doormen wear tattered clothes – then the penny drops when you enter the L-shaped, 200-capacity basement and see the satirical murals spoofing Manhattan's high-society swells.
(9) The crsA47 suppressor restores sporulation of spoOE, spoOF, spoOK and spoIIG mutants to levels near those of wild type bacteria and substantially improves the sporulation of a spoOB strain.
(10) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(11) The instruction came via a spoof Twitter account using the name of the parent company’s Japanese chief executive, Kazuo Hirai.
(12) Spoofs are no longer one-off scrawls that fade on individual walls, but community in-jokes that take on a virtual life of their own.
(13) That weakness could theoretically allow a hacker to receive the email by spoofing the server.
(14) Press Association BBC radio station defends spoof M&S job cuts clip The BBC has caused anger after broadcasting a spoof advertisement that seemed to make fun of Marks & Spencer staff who have lost their jobs.
(15) In Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a video called “The Mark Udall Dynasty” that spoofs the opening credits of the hit 1980s TV show Dynasty as the narrator says: “Wealthy, comfortable and established.
(16) A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country.
(17) James Corden can sing and, although it’s a spoof, the performances are really good.
(18) The same deletion in the upstream region of the functional spoOF gene results in cells which sporulate very poorly, although they are not blocked at the onset of sporulation, as in an spoOF null mutant.
(19) Open reading frame 2 encodes a 26,000-dalton polypeptide that is similar to a family of transcriptional activators, including the products of the Bacillus subtilis spoOA and spoOF and the E. coli ompR and dye genes.
(20) They then pretend to be their target, using a technique known as internet protocol address spoofing.