We found 3 definitions of falsifications from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: falsifications |
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falsification - a willful perversion of facts | ||
misrepresentation | ||
actus reus, wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | ||
overrefinement, straining, twisting, torture, distortion the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" | ||
tergiversation, equivocation falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | ||
lying, prevarication, fabrication the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||
falsification - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | ||
falsehood | ||
knavery, dishonesty lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | ||
frame-up, setup an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | ||
sophistication falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" | ||
falsification - the act of determining that something is false | ||
falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal | ||
finding, determination the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | ||
falsification - any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | ||
disproof, refutation | ||
evidence, grounds your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling" | ||
reductio, reductio ad absurdum (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | ||
confutation evidence that refutes conclusively |