126 adjectives to describe falsehood

Then he spoke of our being put on short allowance, and straightway the men pricked up their ears, listening intently to the end that they might be able to prove the quartermaster had told a deliberate falsehood.

They declared this method of killing to be "a mathematical impossibility" and, by inference, a gross falsehood, utterly ruinous to true ideas of wolves and of natural history.

Indeed the generosity of his heroic heart could hardly bear to think that those glorious truths which he so cordially loved, and which he assuredly believed to be capable of such fair support both from reason and the word of God, should be disgraced by methods of defence and propagation common to the most impious and ridiculous falsehoods.

And must we prove, that Jesus Christ is not in favor of palpable, monstrous falsehood?

In the way of facts, not one was faithfully stated; and there were several deliberate, unmitigated falsehoods, which went essentially to colour the whole account.

" [e] This, Mr. Bruce, the late traveller, avers to be a downright falsehood.

The same vile falsehood is cruelly uttered of some women, when every body knows, or should know, that these same women are nothing of the sort.

And must we prove, that Jesus Christ is not in favor of palpable, monstrous falsehood?

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it; Singing birds, that utter falsehoods, Story-tellers, mischief-makers, Found no eager ear to listen, Could not breed ill-will between them, For they kept each other's counsel, Spake with naked hearts together, Pondering much and much contriving How the tribes of men might prosper.

"As to the charge," would she undauntedly continue, "brought against him of cruelty to the dogs under his care, it is an abominable falsehood; Elliott may be passionate, I don't say he is not, but he is generous and humane.

Of truth it has been always observed, sir, that every day adds to its establishment, and that falsehoods, however specious, however supported by power, or established by confederacies, are unable to stand before the stroke of time.

There was a momentary pause as each man, hesitating between a direct falsehood, the truth, and a plausible excuse, rather waited for the other to speak.

Of his interview with Johnson, Priestley, in his Appeal to the Public, part ii, published in 1792 (Works, xix. 502), thus writes, answering 'the impudent falsehood that when I was at Oxford Dr. Johnson left a company on my being introduced to it': 'In fact we never were at Oxford at the same time, and the only interview I ever had with him was at Mr. Paradise's, where we dined together at his own request.

"Do not tear them from me," he cries, "you kill me when you destroy the cruel falsehoods by which I live.

" "Detestable falsehood!" cried Folderico.

"And what of Rhyming Joe's story?" "It was a pure falsehood.

If he owes any one a grudge, or wishes to enjoy the fiendish pleasure of whipping a little, (for some overseers really delight in it,) they have only to tell a falsehood relative to the weight of their basket; they can then have a pretext to gratify their diabolical disposition; and from the character of overseers, I have no doubt that it is frequently done.

But this, as well as the taking of the Bastille, and other revolutionary falsehoods, will, I trust, be elucidated.

In as much as he had every reason to believe this to be outright falsehood, Lanyard didn't feel called upon to seem downcast.

He returned actively to the assault against Christianity, and I could not bear to hear him vent historical falsehoods and misrepresentations damaging to the Christian cause, without contradicting them.

I have, in fact, little solicitude about these diurnal falsehoods, though I am not altogether free from alarm as to their tendency.

Both might have purchased power at the price of one annual falsehood.

Opposite him upon the wall was a portrait of her by a distinguished Frenchman, with whose mŽtier he was familiaran astounding falsehood in various shades of tooth-powder.

That it is replenished throughout with bold, rude, improbable falsehoods, and gross misinterpretations; and supported by the most impudent sophistry and false logic I have anywhere observed.

I trust, gentlemen, that I am too well known at the bar of this court and in this community to have my moral standing swept away by such a flimsy falsehood as you see this to be.

126 adjectives to describe  falsehood