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false name

n. a name that has been assumed temporarily [syn: alias, assumed name]

Usage examples of "false name".

My father had given them to me-the false name, the misleading address, the identification of a male-after I had pleaded for my own life.

He got rid of the big one first by checking in at a big hotel, not one he or Harley ever stayed at, under a false name, just to have a chance to put the big bundle in the incinerator there.

Upon a day, despairing of meeting him face to face in battle, I sent a challenge to de Garcia by a herald, under his false name of Sarceda.

What manner of proceeding was yours to go to Lavedan under a false name?

The policeman had fallen for a false name and address and a volume of lies thrown in, a few scribblings in his notebook that he had not thought worth the paperwork so he'd let it go at that, and Raglan too.

But everyone called him Count Olaf, unless he was wearing one of his ridiculous disguises and making people call him a false name.

So their patient had retained enough presence of mind, even when emerging from his coma, to give a false name.

And then II with the case and its contents in my pocket, my false name and my sham spectacles and the rest of itI should have had no explanation to offer but the highly convincing one that I didn't know the key was there.

When they have to come up with a false name quick, they choose something close to the truth.

As far as he was concerned, the wizard who'd proposed it had known what he was doing when he chose a false name.

The only question she had asked about the false name and the cash payment was how it affected Carlo.