false

adjective (NOT TRUE)

/fɒls/

/fɑːls/

Definition

B1 disapproving not true, but made to seem true in order to deceive people: She was charged with giving false evidence in court. When she was stopped by the police for speeding, she gave them a false name and address. He assumed a false identity (= pretended he was someone else) in order to escape from the police.Faking and pretending under false pretences disapproving › If you do something under false pretences, you lie about who you are, what you are doing, or what you intend to do, in order to get something: He was deported for entering the country under false pretences. If you're not going to offer me a job, then you've brought me here under false pretences (= you have deceived me in order to make me come here).Dishonest

(Definition of false adjective (NOT TRUE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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