How to Use falsehood in a Sentence

falsehood

noun
  • Does truth get falsehood in a headlock and pin it to the ground?
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • That’s the goal of those who flood the market with falsehoods.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Fairness can’t be built on falsehoods.
    — Alanna Smith, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Do truth and falsehood wrestle?
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • His falsehoods would catch up with him less than a year after his term began.
    — NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The same post also pushed falsehoods about voting.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But then came Frey’s fall from grace, as his tale was found to be peppered with falsehoods.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • This will cause people to be unsure of what is truth versus falsehoods.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Yet Adler, not unlike others, left his mark on that falsehood.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Many journalists in Ukraine have tried to counter the falsehoods.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2018
  • The sting of this piece is not in its allegations, but in its falsehoods and half-truths.
    — WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Trump’s campaign was filled with lies and falsehoods, but this one may be the most damaging of all.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Fears have spurred falsehoods, which, like the virus, are spreading on social media.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Of course, there’s another meaning to the word myth—falsehood.
    — Lisa Abend, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The images have led to related falsehoods that have spread online in their wake.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This was to be the only verifiable falsehood of the whole day.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The media took this press release and added a further layer of falsehood.
    — Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • We will not be gulled by the frauds and falsehoods of the Kremlin’s apologists.
    — Lloyd J. Austin Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In July, a tweet made the rounds spreading a falsehood about voting.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Kobe Steel is also telling customers the details of its falsehoods.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Glitchy programming isn’t the only font of falsehood.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
  • But the last decade has made the extent—and the consequences—of online falsehoods all the more clear.
    — Paris Martineau, Wired, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Rumours break like waves in some nameless river, dappling our sleeves with falsehood.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Here are some key moments and falsehoods from her year-plus in the nation’s top law enforcement spot.
    — Politifact, Dallas Morning News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This means all the hullabaloo that the skinny jean will be making a comeback is a falsehood.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The effects of Cartwright's falsehood, and others like it, linger today.
    — Jacque Smith, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • None of us is in a position to judge which falsehoods might benefit people.
    — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The truth is always more useful than a comforting falsehood.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Such undead falsehoods drive our current peril.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026

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