FALSELY
Scrabble letter values: F4A1L1S1E1L1Y4 = 13
Definition
- adverb in an insincerely false manner.
- adverb in an incorrect manner. — synonyms: incorrectly
Examples
- “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”
- “to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely”
- “He protested his innocence to the end, claiming he had been falsely charged and convicted.”