Things are done falsely when they're fake or dishonest. If your sister smiles falsely at you, you'll know she's up to no good.
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
Adverb
in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
Adverb
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"
adv.
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously
or treacherously.
Falsely
Oppositions of science, falsely so called.
Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ?
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
Usage Examples
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Other Usage ExamplesFew tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.