Dictionary Check: falsely

"falsely" is a valid word!

Scrabble 13 points
Words with Friends 14 points

Definition

adverb

in an insincerely false manner

Example: "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"
adverb

in an incorrect manner

Example: "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
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