How do you use the word "false" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "false" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "false": The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect. I have false nearsightedness.

False Meaning

/fɔːls/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjUntrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

adjBased on factually incorrect premises.

Sentence Examples

The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.

I have false nearsightedness.

A whale is a fish. True or false?

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

wrong untrue mistaken

Antonyms:

true right correct

CEFR Practice Quiz

The detective realized the witness gave a ____ statement during the trial.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The witness was accused of giving ____ testimony to protect her friend from the police.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux. The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber." — 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217, column 2:

"At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum." — 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 300:

"I to my ſelf was falſe, e’re thou to me,[…]" — 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 52, line 25:

"She had been in Baton Rouge but a little over two weeks, when suddenly his letters ceased. She awaited in anxious suspense a whole week — no letter. Another week dragged heavily, and her anxiety became a terrible fear. Was he sick and unable to write — was he dead — or, still more terrible thought, had he proved false?" — 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 7:

"So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whoſe falſe foundacion waues haue waſht away,[…]" — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54, page 170:

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