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

Matched Categories

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. Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate:

   I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

2. Andrew Michaels:

   There is no sure thing when it comes to investing. Anyone that tells you that your investment is guaranteed to increase is lying through their teeth.

3. Helen Wilson:

   We heard a couple of noises outside and people started running into the club. We didn't know what was going on. Then maybe five, six guys came in with machine guns and shotguns and just started shooting people. It was mayhem. When anyone started running, they would shoot them down. So we got down on the floor, nick was in front of me when we were lying on the ground and somebody moved and they just turned round and started shooting us. His back was to me and I couldn't see what happened and I tried to keep him talking and then I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and [the gunmen] were just sort of in the shadows and they would shoot if anyone said anything. Then he couldn't breathe anymore and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him.

4. Jehad Shawar:

   As his cousin exited the bathroom, which was inside the room, they fired five bullets, one bullet in the head, one in the chest and three in his body, they took Azzam and placed him in the wheelchair they brought the woman in and they exited the room preventing anyone from giving medical aid to the young man lying on the floor.

5. Mohamad Adeeb:

   Castello is the road to death to Aleppo. I did not know whether I would make it to Aleppo city alive, i saw death with my own eyes, with corpses lying on the way and dozens of trucks and civilian cars and bodies that none of the civil defense teams were able to recover because of the intensity of the shelling of the regime and Russian warplanes.