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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Fraudulently or deceptively imitative: bogus, counterfeit, fake, fraudulent, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious. See TRUE. 2. Containing an error or errors: erroneous, fallacious, inaccurate, incorrect, mistaken, off, unsound, untrue, wrong. Idioms: all wet, in error, off base, off (or wide of) the mark. See CORRECT. 3. Not true to duty or obligation: disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue. See CONTINUE, TRUST. 4. Containing fundamental errors in reasoning: fallacious, illogical, invalid, sophistic, specious, spurious, unsound. See CORRECT, TRUE. 5. Devoid of truth: counterfactual, specious, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong. See TRUE.
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