false friend

While most words have the same meaning, there are also a number of false friends.

"There were five false friends, and I can name them!"

The following words do not fall under false friends.

God keep you from them and from such false friends!

From the etymological point of view, false friends can be created in several ways.

Yet few know who their friends are; and a false friend is a devil in disguise.

Since the pronunciation is the same, these words may occur to be false friends.

Extending the period of maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay is a false friend.

If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying to work for your money.

Their letters show a mutual support system that says: let false friends beware.

There are, however, some false friends between the two languages:

Besides vocabulary differences, there are also a number of false friends in both languages.

"Did you put him up to this, false friend?"

Duke Albany had been a false friend to her.

Roy's face hadn't shown a single reaction that his false friend expected.

For all our lives I have been a false lover and a false friend.

Such a false friend for begrudging you his help and friendship."

He became obsessed, focusing all his anger on the old crowd, the false friends who had abandoned him.

They would "avenge" the assassination of the false friend whose life he'd have to take in such circumstances.

"I'm afraid he was rather a false friend," was the professor's answer.

A known enemy in the open is better than a false friend in ambush.

Sickness, decline in fortune and false friends are filling your sphere.

There is a traditional proverb which holds that false friends are worse than open enemies.

"If you are successful you will win false friends and true enemies," the speaker said.

In certain cases, false friends evolved separately in the different languages.