"ring false" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rings false",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ringing false",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rang false",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rung false",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "ring false (third-person singular simple present rings false, present participle ringing false, simple past rang false, past participle rung false)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ring true"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24",
          "text": "Moments of potential transcendence, such as an afternoon constitutional through an expressionistic wonderland recalling the Fuji Velvia vividness of What Dreams May Come, ring false in light of this project's mercenary origins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "But to some viewers, it rang false. They had seen this pattern before: show writes meme-able scene; scene becomes meme; instant marketing; profit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seem to be incorrect, or implausible."
      ],
      "id": "en-ring_false-en-verb-qAiExNrZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "seem",
          "seem"
        ],
        [
          "incorrect",
          "incorrect"
        ],
        [
          "implausible",
          "implausible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To seem to be incorrect, or implausible."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ring hollow"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to seem to be incorrect",
          "word": "kuulostaa väärältä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to seem to be incorrect",
          "word": "sonner faux"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ring false"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rings false",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ringing false",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rang false",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rung false",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "ring<,,rang,rung> false"
      },
      "expansion": "ring false (third-person singular simple present rings false, present participle ringing false, simple past rang false, past participle rung false)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "ring true"
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        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24",
          "text": "Moments of potential transcendence, such as an afternoon constitutional through an expressionistic wonderland recalling the Fuji Velvia vividness of What Dreams May Come, ring false in light of this project's mercenary origins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "But to some viewers, it rang false. They had seen this pattern before: show writes meme-able scene; scene becomes meme; instant marketing; profit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seem to be incorrect, or implausible."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seem",
          "seem"
        ],
        [
          "incorrect",
          "incorrect"
        ],
        [
          "implausible",
          "implausible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To seem to be incorrect, or implausible."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ring hollow"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to seem to be incorrect",
      "word": "kuulostaa väärältä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to seem to be incorrect",
      "word": "sonner faux"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ring false"
}