How to Use falsehood in a Sentence

falsehood

noun

• The agency launched a new web page this week to mitigate the damage of widespread falsehoods.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
• In the narratives featured in this second essay in the series, good and evil, truth and falsehood, take on supreme importance in themselves.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2020
• Hwang, like Butterworth, is interested in doubles—truth and falsehood, yes, but other pairings, too.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
• Arsonists recently torched more than a dozen British cell towers after that falsehood circulated.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2020
• Lara, like many of Trump’s devotees, helped to spread that falsehood.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 12 July 2024
• And these are just the falsehoods Musk tweeted himself.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
• In July, a tweet made the rounds spreading a falsehood about voting.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• In the end, Trump did not proactively stoke the falsehood - but did not play it down either.
  — Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
• Forget the absurd falsehood about Sasse and Afghanistan.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
• But the message, the army clarified hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• The effects of Cartwright's falsehood, and others like it, linger today.
  — Jacque Smith, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
• Supporters of Trump, backed by an online army, pushed the falsehood that the election was stolen.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• But Trump could also use the platform to spread falsehoods, as he's done on Truth Social.
  — Julia Ingram, CBS News, 5 June 2024
• This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
  — Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
• The ad’s claim has been dubbed a falsehood by Washington Post fact-checkers.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Still, Albert added that students deserve to know what's going on in the U.S. and around the world, and telling partial truths equates to a falsehood.
  — Emily Bloch, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• All four of them go after the same thing, this truth/falsehood issue, and blur between the two, which is how the world has approached me for so many years.
  — Nick Hilden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Yet Adler, not unlike others, left his mark on that falsehood.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• The same image and attached falsehood have spread on Twitter.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• The media took this press release and added a further layer of falsehood.
  — Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• But even Emmer has worked to spread election falsehoods.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Readers wouldn’t need to look too hard to find the falsehood themselves, the sheriff’s office noted.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• There was a time when Mr. Santos expressed regret for some of those falsehoods.
  — Michael Gold, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The classic defense of freedom of speech relies on the metaphor of a marketplace of ideas, in which truth wins out over falsehood over the long term.
  — Iona Italia, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
• Some of those falsehoods may be repeated at the RNC — on stage, on camera or elsewhere.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2024
• But artist Hannah Uzor says that's an argument that rests on a falsehood.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2021
• The truth or falsehood of the proposition is, in a nutshell, what the two main factions on the right are arguing over today.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 28 Feb. 2021
• Trump has long attempted to promote the falsehood that a very large number of Black people love him.
  — Helen Bezuneh, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2023
• All this is particularly troubling given a recent Treasury Department announcement notes that Russian officials were involved in an effort to create bots that would spread online falsehoods to Americans about where to vote in the 2024 election.
  — Mekela Panditharatne and Shanze Hasan, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
• In several of his personal attacks on Harris, including the reference to drinking, Trump appeared to be referencing falsehoods or unsubstantiated claims spreading online in far-right circles.
  — Jill Colvin, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024