falsification

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The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.

The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

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Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. Erich Fromm

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies. Norman Finkelstein

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. Imre Lakatos

Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from war and poverty. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and capitalism in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism. Clement Attlee

Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Sinclair Lewis

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (, 8 September 1935) Dorothy L. Sayers

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