falso
dummy ; false ; sham ; spurious ; unauthentic ; faked ; untrue ; bogus ; deceitful ; pseudo ; fake ; two-faced ; inauthentic ; phony [phoney] ; meretricious ; counterfeit ; insincere ; hocus pocus ; specious ; dishonest ; mendacious ; delusional.
DOBIS/LIBIS, therefore, assigns them the dummy master number zero.
The concept 'Senses' constitutes a false link in the chain.
A sham catalog is a disservice to the user, and participating in the creation of a sham catalog is personally degrading to a professional.
Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness at the reference desk.
So, in the bicentennial spirit here's a three-point bill of particulars or grievances (in addition to what was mentioned previously with respect to offensive or unauthentic terms).
Libri was accused of stealing manuscripts of unique importance and rarity from French provincial libraries in the 1840s and inserting faked notes of provenance, substituting Italian place names for French ones.
Public library collections are of little use to scholars and have failed to provide the communications links that might prove this hypothesis untrue.
The article 'A bogus and dismal science, or the eggplant that ate library schools' discusses the reasons for the perennial professional indentity crisis amongst librarians.
Again, on the matter of the sources already consulted by the enquirer, the implication is not that he is unreliable or deceitful, but that in looking up the Encyclopedia Americana he may not be aware of the existence of the index.
Sometimes authors write 'pseudo abstracts' to meet deadlines for articles or for talks to be delivered.
This article deals with the detection of fake letters and documents.
This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
The responsibility of the critic must be to maintain rigorous standards, and strive to alert the public to the implications for the future of a market flooded with meretricious productions.
Criminal charges are to be brought against 3 people after the seizure of counterfeit copies of British Telecom's PhoneDisc, a CD-ROM database containing the company's 100 or so telephone directories.
There is a point when participation may become mere meddling and insincere.
The final section of her paper calls attention to the 'hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.
This comparative frame of reference is specious and irrelevant on several counts.
Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.
I love movies like that - where slowly, gradually, bit by bit, all the characters realize that the villain was really disastrously mendacious and criminal.
Despite what false patriots tell us, we now have a delusional democracy, not one that citizens can trust to serve their interests.
abeto falso
spruce
Both balsam firs and spruces compensate for the loss of this foliage with prolific epicormic shoot production.
alegación falsa
ipse dixit
Readers, he maintains, will wince at this illegal ipse dixit.
amigo falso
false friend
False friends are worst than bitter enemies.
charlatanería falsa
cant
His book merits high praise for its thoroughness and complete lack of cant.
costilla falsa
false rib
However, instead of being attached directly to the sternum in front, the false ribs are attached to the lowest true rib.
crear falsas ilusiones
create + false illusions
The American Library Association and others are making wildly improbable statements creating false illusions throughout the library world.
dar falsas esperanzas
string + Nombre + along
lead + Nombre + on
give + Nombre + false hopes
give + Nombre + false promises
lead + Nombre + on
If you don't have feelings for him any more it's not good to keep stringing him along.
It's not fair to lead her on, it will just make things worse!.
He gave her false hopes and took every penny he could from her.
Either he raped the maid or he had sex with her by giving her false promises.
It's not fair to lead her on, it will just make things worse!.
dar una falsa impresión
keep up + a facade
put on + an act
Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
Singers, dancers, and actors must now all know how to sing, dance and put on an act.
dar un paso en falso
make + a false move
A man with a gun said, 'If you make a false move, you're dead'.
democracia falsa
travesty democracy
This travesty of democracy is the cause of our economic woe.
diamante falso
rhinestone
These unique hair claws covered with rhinestone are a stepped-up version of today's most popular accessories.
documento falso
forged document
fake document
The way they tried to stonewall and brazen out the forged document scandal suggests that they didn't realize the extent to which their monopoly was gone.
Unfortunately, there are thousands of students who have succeeded to obtain student visa with fake documents.
engañar con falsas esperanzas
string + Nombre + along
If you don't have feelings for him any more it's not good to keep stringing him along.
erradicar falsas ideas
erase + misconceptions
Measurement of library activities can provide the evidence to erase misconceptions and add weight to those aspects of service that present a more powerful image = La medición de las actividades bibliotecarias puede proporcionar las pruebas necesarias para erradicar falsas ideas y apoyar aquellos aspectos del servicio que presentan una mejor imagen de la biblioteca.
erradicar una falsa idea
dispel + idea
The author aims to present Delphi as a practical method and to dispel the idea that Delphi is more of a guessing game.
falsa alabanza
lip service
Lip service (and reading gets plenty of that in educational circles) is not enough.
falsa alarma
false alarm
false alert
The 1979 incident was not the only false alarm to nearly trigger nuclear war.
Many users have already disabled the feature due to false alerts.
falsa alerta
false alert
Many users have already disabled the feature due to false alerts.
falsa esperanza
false hope
However, false hope provided by false prophets that robs desperate people of their dignity and their money remains illegal in this country.
falsa identidad
false identity
His trial heard he tried to 'avoid dirtying his hands' by hiring others to run the firm and adopting a false identity.
falsa ilusión
delusion
The article 'Illusions, delusions, conclusions' reminds searchers that the most important issue when looking at search results is to make sure that all information is reliable and true.
falsa inmodestia
false immodesty
We neither lack in ambition nor suffer from false immodesty.
falsa modestia
false modesty
False modesty is only one of a series of feigned behaviours.
falsa política de integración de minorías [Situación que se da generalmente en política por la cual se elige a una persona que pertenece a una minoría para ocupar un cargo o puesto de trabajo como símbolo de integración democrática aunque la realidad sea diferente]
tokenism
Some of the barriers faced by women seeking senior international appointments are: glass ceiling; trailing spouse; career vs. long term relationship and children; lack of mentors; tokenism; and exclusion from networks.
falsa pretensión
false pretence
That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
falsa promesa
false promise
In essence a great idea, but in reality lots of false promises.
falsa sensación de seguridad
false sense of security
The problem can be compounded because people also usually overvalue their houses, often by as much as 20 per cent, giving them a false sense of security.
falsa verdad
false truth
Over the last year he has pushed her around, fed her false truths, built up her hopes then crashed them to the ground.
falso pretexto
false pretence
That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
falso sentimiento
false sentiment
After the shootings came an orgy of mawkishness, sloppiness, and false sentiment.
falso testimonio
perjury
He was tried for perjury in 1685, duly convicted, and sentenced to jail.
hablar en falso
speak with + a split tongue
speak with + a forked tongue
speak with + a twisted tongue
Who is there still to trust if even the most 'reputable' and highly paid accountants, auditors and finance analysts speak with a split tongue.
Instead, he opted to speak with a forked tongue, intoning the rhetoric of peace in English while speaking the language of armed struggle in Arabic.
Do not on these high matters speak with a twisted tongue; do not use words with double meanings; do not use sentences with hidden purposes.
hacer un movimiento en falso
make + a false move
A man with a gun said, 'If you make a false move, you're dead'.
idea falsa [Falso amigo]
misconception
bogus idea
illusion
Another lingering misconception is that reference work is restricted to reference libraries.
Hollywood is expounding the idea that the art world is full of bogus ideas, false values, and kinky sex.
A motion picture is a length of film, with or without recorded sound, bearing a sequence of images that create the illusion of movement when projected in rapid succession.
identidad falsa
false identity
His trial heard he tried to 'avoid dirtying his hands' by hiring others to run the firm and adopting a false identity.
llamada de emergencia falsa
hoax (phone) call
prank (phone) call
In 2005, it received over 9000 hoax phone calls, the highest number of all the fire brigades in the United Kingdom.
I guess at some point in our lives we have definitely been victims of prank calls!.
lujo falso
pseudoluxuries
In times of economic constraint, the pseudoluxuries of duplication, overlap, and competition cannot be indulged or even tolerated.
movimiento en falso
false move
In this perspective, fallacies are false moves employed in the attacker's efforts to refute the defender's thesis.
nivel jerárquico falso
false link
Whatever the reason, a step of false subordination, revealed in the analysis of a chain, is referred to as a 'false link' in the chain.
pasaporte falso
forged passport
The Israeli secret police, Mossad, used forged passports to gain entry into Dubai which were traced back to Israel.
paso en falso
false move
In this perspective, fallacies are false moves employed in the attacker's efforts to refute the defender's thesis.
pista falsa [Algo que distrae del tema que se debate]
red herring
They present the teacher with plenty of opportunities for 'red herrings,' which the students can be allowed to follow when the teacher judges the time is right.
principiante falso [Principiante que no lo es tal por poseer algunos conocimientos básicos de una materia]
false beginner
False beginners will all have had some English training at some point in the past and this can cause some special problems.
resultar falso
prove + false
17 answers (44% ) proved satisfactory up to a point whereas 9 answers (23% ) proved false or inadequate.
sonar falso
have + a hollow ring
Justification has a hollow ring without a firm rationale for existence and survival in this fluid society.
toma falsa [Sección eliminada de la versión final de una película o grabación sonora]
outtake
This is an outtake from Wolfe's follow up to his 1987 'Bonfire of the Vanities'.
