He concocted false provenances and false explanations for how he came to have them.

A false explanation for lift has been put forward in mainstream books, and even in scientific exhibitions.

Hamilton gave a brief, false, but plausible, explanation.

You will not have to try to hide your condition or make up false explanations of it.

"Those are certainly two possibilities," I said, and hesitated, but it didn't seem like the time or the place for long-winded explanations, true or false.

Captain Dakker and his men would be busy with false explanations to police and pier officials.

It always struck me as the perfect example of a false explanation.

On Friday the Court ruled that an employer could give false explanations for firing a black employee - yet still prevail in a lawsuit.

Thank God, no subterfuge, no need for false explanations.

"She didn't try to lie and to give false explanations."