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falsely

adverb

1 falsely

In an insincerely false manner.

Roget 544: falsely etc. adj.; a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly etc. (cunning) 702.   

2 falsely

In an incorrect manner:
— To credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely.

synonym: incorrectly.


verb

Roget 477: judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random.    reason ill, falsely etc. adj.; misjudge etc. 481; paralogize.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: amiss, apparently, artificially, astray, beguilingly, deceptively, delusively, erroneously, factitiously, fallaciously, faultfully, faultily, in disguise, in name only, misleadingly, mistakenly, nominally, ostensibly, plausibly, seemingly ... show more.

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