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falsely

adverb

in a false manner

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Word length
7
Starts with
F
Ends with
Y
Contains
AL
Scrabble score
13

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adverb

  1. in a false manner

    “to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely”

adverb

  1. in an insincerely false manner

    “a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened”

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to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely
a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened

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