falsely Meaning, Definition & Usage
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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
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adverb in an incorrect manner
incorrectly.
- to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely
WordNet
False"ly adverb
Definitions
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak.Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20.
Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? Jer. vii. 9.