False position
noun
1.
a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
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- False pretences
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- False-pretenses
plural noun 1. a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property. 2. the use of such misrepresentation.
- False relation
noun 1. (music) a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part Also called (esp US) cross relation