What is "falsely"

Usage examples of "falsely".

Only Adin, however, had ever been a fugitive from justice: a former Starfleet security officer falsely convicted of treason and murder.

When we have done evil it is because we have been worsted by our baser side--for a man is many--by desire or rage or some evil image: the misnamed reasoning that takes up with the false, in reality fancy, has not stayed for the judgement of the Reasoning-Principle: we have acted at the call of the less worthy, just as in matters of the sense-sphere we sometimes see falsely because we credit only the lower perception, that of the Couplement, without applying the tests of the Reasoning-Faculty.

The wealth that had been secretly buried and falsely reclaimed within the space of a few nights, would go to the three survivors of the Beld estate: Eunice Kerlen and her aunts.

He much preferred the tart-tongued, hot-eyed damsel standing before him now to the retiring, spineless maid Ariane had played for the past week and more after earning his wrath by falsely staining the bedsheets and declaring herself his wife.

By this time the Westphalian recovered the use of his tongue, and with many threats and imprecations, desired they would take notice how falsely he had been aspersed, and do him justice in espousing his claim to the damsel in question.

Now look at the Galeopithecus or flying lemur, which formerly was falsely ranked amongst bats.

From a mere counterfeiter, approached by Keever, he was induced to pose falsely as Legrec.

She had responded to the atmosphere of, if not mutual support, then mutual resistance, a unifying scorn for the preconceptions and mawkish sympathies of the outside world, and learnt to joke loudly and laugh falsely at a great many things that by most standards were not very funny.

Tigellius, the inconsistent performer of the opening, seems, by the end, an extreme instance of the inconsistency we all display, and the only consistent figure is the falsely wise Stoic who is mocked by the society of which he pretends to be the philosophical king.

For again and again he himself through ignorance or obtuseness had inspired his members falsely, to their destruction.

There were high baobabs--to which, however, an extraordinary longevity has been falsely attributed--the bark of which resembles Egyptian syenite, Bourbon palms, white pines, tamarind-trees, pepper-plants of a peculiar species, and a hundred other plants that an American is not accustomed to see in the northern region of the New Continent.

Steel made without technetium would have been described falsely as very inferior, not fit for civilized use.

Stefan she was alone with Webb Calder, even though he was being falsely accused of starting the fire.

He has sworn falsely against the innocent, and yestreen at Kirk Aller he prevailed.

But it is truly unbelievable that Yves could make such a suggestion to you, to his own daughter, poisoning your mind against yourself, and so falsely!