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. Jim Himes:

   The more we learn the more we -- I, at least -- become concerned Roger Stone wasn't being honest with The House Intelligence Committee, if Roger Stone has evidence that Roger Stone lied to Congress and just in the last couple of weeks Roger Stone has brought charges to people for lying to Congress what that gives Roger Stone is real leverage with Roger Stone.

2. Saeb Erekat:

   He (Netanyahu) wants to install cameras in order to monitor and arrest our people;, he is lying and lying.

3. Theory Kinnett:

   I’m not trying to be grandiose but if not me then who? somebody has to tell the Indianapolis parents that this stuff is going on. I put up with a lot but lying to parents about what we do so that they don’t even have a choice to get their kids out of the district?

4. Baby Rashad:

   I heard a loud boom, and when I ran out, I saw a hammock on the sidewalk and the woman lying down right next to the hammock, she couldn’t move. She’s in bad shape. Her left leg was twisted up.

5. Lim Kit Siang:

   All Malaysians should study and dissect the most astonishing interview given by Najib on the 1MDB scandal with Reuters, i do not believe that Najib is so stupid, incompetent or ignorant, which only means he was lying through his teeth in his interview with Reuters.