🇬🇧 Falsehood meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A falsehood is something that someone says or writes that is not true. It might be told on purpose to trick someone, or by accident if the person is wrong. A falsehood is the opposite of the truth.

Announcing that I’m a world-famous nap champion may be a falsehood, but I’m training hard.

His falsehood that he was too weak to clean vanished when he lifted the couch for the remote.

Calling broccoli a delicious chocolate tree is a tasty-sounding falsehood.

I told a dramatic falsehood that I was allergic to vegetables and only survived on pizza.

Ancient tales claimed the Earth was flat—a gigantic falsehood proven wrong when explorers sailed around the world and didn’t fall off the edge.

At dinner, Anna held up the torn letter. The falsehood that her brother had stolen money sat on the table. He told a falsehood, then another falsehood, eyes down. Anna found the true bill in his drawer and saw the falsehood collapse. He cried; she forgave him, leaving the falsehood behind.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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