Example Sentences

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She also faced the primary backlash tactic: Falsely accusing victims of lying.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2025

Falsely claiming a pandemic-related financial problem can result in a charge of perjury, which is a felony punishable by fines and up to four years in prison.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022

Falsely claiming to speak for the tribe, they agreed to removal in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

A version of this article appears in print on March 9, 2014, on page BU1 of the with the headline: When Employees Confess, Sometimes Falsely.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2014

Thomson, the author of "The Castle of Indolence," who gave birth to the depraved apostrophe, "Falsely luxurious, will not man awake," was one of the laziest men of his century.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey