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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