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say it: FAWL-slee
falsely is an adverb meaning "in an insincerely false manner". It is pronounced /ˈfɔlsli/ — FAWL-slee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
in an insincerely false manner
“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”
in an incorrect manner
“to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for falsely come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.