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(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" inconstant arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" incorrect inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" inharmonious designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom" dishonest deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses" insincere not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" mendacious, specious, trumped-up(a), untrue erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" invalid adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" counterfeit not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn''t fake anything; it''s real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" artificial inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" unrealistic in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" |
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