false accusation

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandaccusation

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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accusation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌæk.jəˈzeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæk.jəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
a statement saying that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind, or the fact of ...
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(Definition offalseandaccusationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse accusation

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I have in mind, for example, a situation where a woman has made afalseaccusationagainst someone else in the past.
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Let us consider the case of a newspaper which makes an entirelyfalseaccusationof fraud against an individual of small means.
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If the arguments that give him this special consideration are valid, they are equally valid for every defendant against whom afalseaccusationis made.
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I am saying this now on thisfalseaccusationof bigotry.
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Is he then entitled to go on and make thefalseaccusationthat he made in the first place?
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That is afalseaccusationagainst local radio.
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That is afalseaccusationif ever there was one.
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A person may go into retirement with afalseaccusationhaving been made against him and be branded for the rest of his life.
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Anyone who knowingly makes afalseaccusationagainst a police officer may be prosecuted.
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It does not necessarily mean that because there has been an acquittal, there has been afalseaccusation.
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That means either that the guilty are being acquitted—and are therefore not deterred from offending again—or that the innocent are being dragged through the horrifying process offalseaccusation.
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As has already been said, is the most vulnerable of all persons, the most open to wrongful arrest andfalseaccusation, to be deprived of jury trial for all time?
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But this is afalseaccusation.
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That would be afalseaccusation.
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That is afalseaccusation.
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It is an entirelyfalseaccusation.
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Afalseaccusationof question dodging can sometimes be made as a disingenuous tactic in debate, in the informal fallacy of the loaded question.
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Failure to provide evidence is treated as a crime offalseaccusation, punishable with flogging.
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They accused them of misconduct and of making afalseaccusationwhich led to an innocent man going to prison.
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It depicts afalseaccusationof lesbianism by a schoolgirl against two of her teachers.
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