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Synonyms for lying

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for lying

given to or marked by deliberate concealment or misrepresentation of the truth

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Synonyms for lying

the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

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The same whirlwinds of snow circled about, covering the dead Vasili Andreevich's fur coat, the shivering Mukhorty, the sledge, now scarcely to be seen, and Nikita lying at the bottom of it, kept warm beneath his dead master.
Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost.
In Amerlika they have developed a certain interrogating device called a lie-detector that can tell whether you are speaking the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Yahweh, or in more simple elaborative terms, whether you are lying.
Lying may indeed be a sin, but doesn't it make life just that little bit easier and just that little bit better?
The President's daughter has recently been saying a lot about lying and honesty.
If you're lying to spare others harm or pain, that's considered prosocial lying.
Lie (present participle): I am lying on the couch for a couple days.
The greater the difference in temperature between both facial regions, the more likely the person is lying.
Why has blatant lying become our second nature, is it a reflection of our collective failure or a sorry state of the moral standards practiced by our leaders?
5) Surprisingly, he admitted in court that he was always lying about his identity.
LYING BY EXAGGERATION ANOTHER common type of lie whereby a person exaggerates the truth, often to appear more impressive to others.
all tell a fib or two now and then Compulsive lying may also be a symptom of a type of mental health problem known as a personality disorder.
Rogers, lying to himself, suggested that his irrepressible manliness might be the reason the D-G was punishing him: "So tell me, did I possibly grab the backside of an editor's wife?
There have been measurement problems in previous lying behavior studies.