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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. in an insincerely false manner;
- Example: "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"

2. in an incorrect manner;
- Example: "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
[syn: falsely, incorrectly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Falsely \False"ly\, adv.
   In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or
   treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." --Shak.
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         Oppositions of science, falsely so called. --1 Tim. vi.
                                                  20.
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         Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer.
                                                  vii. 9.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

falsely
    adv 1: 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"
    2: 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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsely":
   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