Synonyms for lying
ˈlaɪ ɪŋly·ing

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1. lying

   Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive; the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity; but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. Falsehood and lying are in utterance; deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion; deceit always involves injurious intent. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality; they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit. Compare ARTIFICE; FICTION; FRAUD; HYPOCRISY.

   Synonyms:
   craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, falsehood, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, prevarication, trickery, untruth

   Antonyms:
   candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity

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1. lying

   Synonyms:
   mendacious, false, untrue, untruthful

   Antonyms:
   true, veracious

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1. lying, prevarication, fabricationnoun

   the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

   Synonyms:
   fictionalisation, fabrication, manufacturing, evasiveness, assembly, manufacture, equivocation, lie, fictionalization, fiction, prevarication, fable

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1. • Falsification

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1. mythomane

   not telling the truth; not being worthy

   Submitted by anonymous on January 21, 2020  

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1. lyingadjective

   Synonyms:
   false, mendacious, untruthful, untrue

2. lyingnoun

   Synonyms:
   falsehood

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1. lyingadjective

   Synonyms:
   untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful

2. lyingnoun

   Synonyms:
   falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction

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1. List of paraphrases for "lying":

   lie, liar, lied, lies, elongate, iie, mens

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1. John Walke:

   The EPA is allowing more harmful air pollution to be sent from big polluters in one state to neighboring states, refusing to control the pollution, then lying about what is an obvious rollback, the EPA's absurd to pretend this so-called' guidance' doesn't change what's acceptable : the purpose of the rollback memo is to let upwind states pollute more and refuse to control harmful smog and soot they emit into neighboring states.

2. Roberta Kaplan:

   It is horrific that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a New York City department store many years ago, but it is truly shocking that the current Department of Justice would allow Donald Trump to get away with lying about it, thereby depriving our client of her day in court. The DOJ’s position is not only legally wrong, it is morally wrong since it would give federal officials free license to cover up private sexual misconduct by publicly brutalizing any woman who has the courage to come forward.

3. Dale Bumpers:

   The The House managers have said shame and embarrassment is no excuse for lying. Well, the question about lying, that's your decision. But I can tell you, you put yourself in President Clinton position, and you've already had this big moral lapse, as to what you would do. We are -- none of us are perfect. Sure, you say, President Clinton should have thought of all that beforehand. And indeed President Clinton should. Just as Adam and Eve should have. Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances should have thought of it before. And I say none of us are perfect.

4. Fotis Mamoglou:

   He is better at lying than the others, he speaks to the problems that people are facing, but he also uses them to elevate himself.

5. Dale Carnegie:

   If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.