lie
verb [I] (SPEAK FALSELY) /laɪ/ (present participle lying, past tense lied, past participle lied)Definition
B1 to say or write something that is not true in order to deceive someone: Are you lying to me? Don't trust her - she's lying. I suspect he lies about his age. → See also liarLies, lying and hypocrisyDishonest people
(Definition of lie verb (SPEAK FALSELY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Affected & insincere
- Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
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- Dishonest people
- Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
- Faking & pretending
- Honesty, openness & sincerity
- Loyal, faithful & dependable
- Naive & trusting
- Plotting & trapping
- Praising insincerely or too eagerly
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Synonyms and related words:
- artifice noun
- bad faith noun
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard noun
- cobbler noun (NONSENSE)
- fib noun
- fiction noun
- flimflam noun
- forked tongue noun
- half-truth noun
- misinformation noun
- mislead verb
- misrepresent verb
- misrepresentation noun
- myth noun (FALSE IDEA)
- travesty noun
- untruth noun
- weasel words noun
- white lie noun
- whopper noun
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