(a.) The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
(a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) After such an assumption is made it is very difficult to carry out research on whether such prerequisites are true independently of the correctness or falsity these assumptions.
(2) I would like to see more movement on the burden of proof, or as Geoff Robertson calls it , "the presumption of falsity".
(3) London tried to brush them aside expressing the hope in a 1957 white paper on reports of brutality by British forces that it could "rely on the worldwide knowledge of their traditions of humanity and decency to convince the public of the free world of the falsity of allegations".
(4) When the falsity of the allegation became known, Bercow apologised publicly to McAlpine in four tweets between 9 and 12 November and in private letters on 21 November.
(5) To talk of “consequences” is a way to blame the victim, an attempt to clothe brute power in a robe of justice, but the falsity of it all is shown by the hyperbolic language of this primates’ final document: the communique speaks of marriage as a “lifelong union between a man and a woman”, when no one seriously expects the Anglican churches to denounce divorce.
(6) I am confident that in New Zealand my known reputation from my work over many years will provide its own refutation of these falsities.
(7) Falsity, whether about the past or the future, is the raw material from which politicians seek to fashion their personal narratives.
(8) Some were more apparent than real, such as the contrasting (as if a falsity was being shrewdly detected) of the deep seriousness of his public, political utterances with the informal gaiety, even glamour, of his refurbishing of the castle above the Vltava.
(9) I'd like people to think there is no falsity in me because what I do is really my character.
(10) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
(11) 150 subjects in 5 groups (nursery schoolers, preschoolers, first graders, fifth graders, and adults) were presented a series of 8 short puppet plays that systematically varied the presence of absence of the 3 prototype elements: factuality of a statement, the speaker's belief in the factuality or falsity of the statement, and the speaker's intent to deceive the listeners.
(12) Litigation can also be used to pressure employers to provide smoke-free working environments, force retailers to obey laws prohibiting sales to minors, require tobacco companies to abandon "colonialist" Third World marketing practices, publicize the falsity of pseudoscientific industry assertions, and prevent television stations from broadcasting tobacco advertising masquerading as sports events.
(13) "From that date, for these reasons, the falsity of the meaning attributed to the words complained of has been universally accepted and the claimant's [McAlpine's] reputation was, at that date effectively vindicated."
(14) "We are pleased that Express Newspapers have today admitted the utter falsity of the numerous grotesque and grossly defamatory allegations that their titles published about us on a sustained basis over many months.
(15) The new report has several recommendations, including cost-cutting (by capping costs and setting up a fast and cheap libel tribunal) and levelling the playing field (by creating an effective public interest defence and by forcing claimants to prove damage and falsity).
(16) The previous literature has reported that when children are asked to judge the truth or falsity of universally quantified conditional sentences of the form If a thing is P then it is Q they typically give responses, e.g., responding "true" whenever there is a case of P and Q even if there are also cases of P and not-Q.
(17) This order of words, which is normal in Japanese grammar, allowed the ERP waveforms associated with semantic mismatch between the S and O occurring in the middle of the sentence to be separated from those elicited by the decision concerning the sentence's truth or falsity occurring at the end of the sentence.
(18) A jury trial, though, is a full-blooded adversarial affair in which defendants can be aggressively defended and prosecution evidence tested for all to see its truth or falsity.
(19) By the time the true figures appear on the DWP website , and informed commentators can see the falsity, the spin, the old saying applies: "A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
(20) "As an expression of its regret, Express Newspapers has agreed to publish front page apologies, acknowledging the falsity of the allegations and reflecting the fact that they should never have been made.
Truth
Definition:
(n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
(n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
(n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
(n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
(n.) Righteousness; true religion.
(v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Milo, he appears to be – to some extent – convinced of the truth of what he’s saying.
(2) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(3) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(4) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(6) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
(7) It is a truth universally acknowledged that it takes fewer votes to elect a Labour than a Conservative government.
(8) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
(9) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(10) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(11) We demand to know the truth.” Earlier, a small group of relatives were removed by police after protesting outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
(12) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(13) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
(14) I still think that it’s good we’re conducting air strikes – the truth is that we probably need more” in Iraq, Rubio said Wednesday.
(15) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
(16) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
(17) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(18) 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.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(20) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.