'Falsely' definitions:
Definition of 'falsely'
From: WordNet
adverb
In an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"
adverb
In an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: falsely, incorrectly]
Definition of 'Falsely'
From: GCIDE
- Falsely \False"ly\, adv. In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Oppositions of science, falsely so called. --1 Tim. vi. 20. [1913 Webster]
- Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer. vii. 9. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'falsely'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amiss,
- apparently,
- artificially,
- astray,
- beguilingly,
- deceptively,
- delusively,
- erroneously,
- factitiously,
- fallaciously,
- faultfully,
- faultily,
- in disguise,
- in name only,
- misleadingly,
- mistakenly,
- nominally,
- ostensibly,
- plausibly,
- seemingly,
- spuriously,
- synthetically,
- trickily,
- truthlessly,
- under cover of,
- under false colors,
- ungenuinely,
- unnaturally,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- unveraciously,
- wrong,
- wrongly
Words containing 'Falsely'
- False,
- Falseness,
- False Pass,
- False arch,
- False attic,
- False bearing,
- False cadence,
- False conception,
- False croup,
- False door,
- False fire,
- False galena,
- False imprisonment,
- False jalap,
- False keel,
- False key,
- False leg,
- False loosestrife,
- False membrane,
- False miterwort,
- False myrrh,
- False nettle,
- False papers,
- False passage,
- False personation,
- False pretenses,
- False quarter,
- False rail,
- False relation,
- False return,
- False ribs,
- False roof,
- False sandalwood,
- False scorpion,
- False tack,
- False token,
- False topaz,
- False vampire,
- False window,
- False wing,
- False works,
- christs false,
- false alarm,
- false alumroot,
- false asphodel,
- false azalea,
- false beachdrops,
- false belief,
- false bittersweet,
- false bottom,
- false bracken,
- false buckthorn,
- false bugbane,
- false calyx,
- false chamomile,
- false deathcap,
- false dogwood,
- false dragonhead,
- false face,
- false flax,
- false foxglove,
- false front,
- false fruit,
- false garlic,
- false gavial,
- false glottis,
- false goatsbeard,
- false gromwell,
- false hair,
- false heather,
- false hellebore,
- false indigo,
- false labor,
- false leopardbane,
- false lupine,
- false mallow,
- false mildew,
- false mistletoe,
- false mitrewort,
- false modesty,
- false morel,
- false move,
- false name,
- false oat,
- false pimpernel,
- false pregnancy,
- false pretence,
- false pretense,
- false ragweed,
- false rue,
- false saffron,
- false sago,
- false sarsaparilla,
- false show,
- false smut,
- false step,
- false tamarisk,
- false teeth,
- false truffle,
- false verdict,
- false wintergreen,
- false witness,
- play false,
- False Pass, AK,
- False Solomon's seal,
- False-faced,
- False-heart,
- False-hearted,
- False-heartedness,
- bearing false witness,
- blue false indigo,
- california false morel,
- false baby's breath,
- false dragon head,
- false lily of the valley,
- false rue anemone,
- false vampire bat,
- false vocal cord,
- false vocal fold,
- great false leopardbane,
- oriental false leopardbane,
- red false mallow,
- scentless false camomile,
- sweet false chamomile,
- true-false,
- white false indigo,
- false saber-toothed tiger,
- saddled-shaped false morel