that's simply false

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

As study after study has shown, that's simply false.

Update, April 2: In a tweet, the president claimed "Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars". That's simply false.

That's simply false.

But that's simply false on the local level and anyone who understands basic civics recognizes this as false.

Sin of fibbing: committed by making environmental claims that are simply false (e.g., products falsely claiming to be Energy Star certified).

"They've gone around bad-mouthing Shaker, saying things that are simply false," he says.

Though the details of the tax plan are sparse, both Cohn and Mnuchin made statements that are simply false.

But they also reveal a disturbing willingness to make use of intelligence material that is simply false.

In its initial response to both incidents, the Trump campaign gave out information that was simply false, insisting that Lewandowski never touched either the protester or the reporter.

As Michael Lewis (a contributing writer for this magazine) explained in his 2003 best seller, "Moneyball," baseball executives spent years clinging to beliefs that were simply false.

It can skew news in a fashion that has lots of Americans believing something that is simply false — a good example, Fox News regulars believe that unemployment is up and the stock market is down since Obama became president.