false light
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A point of view resulting in a misleading or inaccurate representation of a person, situation, or fact.
Countable
noun
A cause of action arising under the common law where a person is portrayed in a way which, while not technically false, is misleading and likely to cause embarrassment to that person.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "To the untrue man, the whole universe is false—it is impalpable—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow."
- "It was not I, but these things working in me—on my brain, making me see things in a false light!"
- "Some of the charges against them . . . are due merely to the false light in which they are regarded."
- "Don Lehe, a Republican state representative from a rural district in Indiana, said online videos can cast farmers in a false light and give them little opportunity to correct the record."
- "Dickinson’s lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks unspecified damages on defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims."