false

false
adjective
1》 not according with truth or fact.
    ↘invalid or illegal: false imprisonment.
2》 deliberately intended to deceive.
    ↘artificial.
3》 not actually so; illusory.
    ↘used in names of plants, animals, and gems that superficially resemble the thing properly so called, e.g. false scorpion.
4》 disloyal.
Phrases
play someone false deceive or cheat someone.
Derivatives
falsely adverb
falseness noun
falsity noun
Origin
OE fals 'fraud', from L. falsum 'fraud', neut. past participle of fallere 'deceive'; reinforced or re-formed in ME from OFr. fals, faus 'false'.

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