Definition: to act insincerely or deceitfully
Palter began as a word meaning “to mumble indistinctly,” and evolved to mean “to act insincerely or deceitfully,” “to use trickery,” or “to equivocate” by the time that Shakespeare used it in Julius Caesar:
Romans, that have spoke the word, and will not palter.
Palter also can mean “to haggle” or “to bargain especially with the intent of delay or compromise,” but that meaning is even more rare today than the “to equivocate” meaning. Recently, researchers into political communications at Harvard have been using palter with a more specific meaning, according to the Harvard Gazette:
Paltering is when a communicator says truthful things and in the process knowingly leads the listener to a false conclusion. It has the same effect as lying, but it allows the communicator to say truthful things and, some of our studies suggest, feel like they’re not being as deceptive as liars.
–Todd Rogers, Harvard Kennedy School
Doing this takes skill and the kind of awareness of what constitutes incriminating speech normally associated with trial lawyers, but the payoff is avoiding the blunt lie. The article goes on to say, “Even if caught, they’re often judged by outside observers less harshly than if they had lied outright.”
The origin of palter is unclear. It could come from the obsolete verb pelt meaning “to bargain,” or it may be a distant relative of the obsolete noun paltry, meaning “something useless or worthless.” But if a plausible theory of the word’s origin were uncovered, should we believe it?
Definition: to hide under a false appearance
Dissemble came to English from the French word dissimuler (“to hide,” “to conceal”), and ultimately from the Latin word dissimulare (“to conceal“ or “to disguise”). The word dissimule—much closer to the French spelling—was used in English until dissemble displaced it around 1600, possibly because of the influence of the unrelated word resemble.
The link to resemble resonates in Shakespeare: in Twelfth Night, the Bard used dissemble to mean “to disguise”—that is, “to not resemble”—when the Clown imitates a clergyman:
Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in’t; and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown.
In many contexts today, dissemble is used as a near-synonym of “to lie”:
He would have no reason to dissemble when he tells me that the dialect Sutton used to disparage para-cyclists is not remotely in the vocabulary of able-bodied rowers who share their Caversham base with Paralympians, as the cyclists do in the Manchester velodrome.
—Jonathan McEvoy, The Daily Mail, 30 April 2016The first order of business is to support candidates in the 2016 election who are sane and plan to help, rather than continue to dissemble and obstruct.
—Tom Toles, The Washington Post, 22 April 2016
Resemble seems to haunt dissemble in a literal way: our evidence shows that dissemble is used where disassemble is intended with sufficient frequency to show that they are very easily confused.
Definition: to avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question
If telling the truth is to stay on the straight and narrow, then to prevaricate is to take a crooked path. It comes from the Latin word varicare that literally means “to straddle,” derived from varus, meaning “bowlegged,” “bent,” or “knock-kneed.” In Latin, praevaricari was used to mean “to plough (a field) crookedly.” It also had a meaning used in Roman legal contexts that gave rise to our modern one: “to collude”–specifically, for an advocate to conspire with his opponent in order to conceal a crime or secure a particular outcome in a trial. The English word began life with the meaning “to transgress” religious or civil laws and “to go astray” (move crookedly) from rectitude. These meanings are now obsolete in English, but led to the modern meaning “to deviate from the truth” or “to speak equivocally or evasively,” or, to be perfectly blunt about it, “to lie.”
Like many legalistic long Latin-derived words, prevaricate contrasts with the monosyllabic Germanic word lie by adding subtle connotations of evading the truth rather than telling an outright falsehood—a lawyer’s trick.
Ordered, that Henry Smith, an Alderman of Drogheda, be taken into Custody of the Sergeant at Arms attending this House, for prevaricating in his Testimony this Day before the House.
—The Post Man (London, Eng.), 24 Sept. 1717
Definition: likely to tell lies
Probably the best fancy way to describe a liar is mendacious. Words derived from Latin give us greater intellectual and emotional distance, which makes them sound technical or legalistic, especially compared to monosyllabic Germanic words: think of interrogate (instead of ask) or perceive (instead of see) or cogitate (instead of think).
Mendacious comes from the Latin word mendax, meaning “lying” or “false.” It is often used to refer to people who habitually lie. Mendax is related to the Latin word for “fault,” menda, which is the root of amend and emend. The a- of amend and e- of emend come from the Latin prefix meaning “out,” so amend and emend literally mean “to remove fault» or «to correct.»
The noun mendacity can be used to mean «lack of honesty» or «lie.»
I am the way, the truth, and the life; and therefore require I sincerity (as Tully did) in counsaile, because pure and sincere veritie is to be respected, and mendacious and subtill lying, is earnestly to be auoided.
—Thomas Lodge, The diuel coniured, 1596
Definition: a trivial or childish lie
Fib, like lie, is both a noun and a verb. It’s a less serious version of lie, often used when referring to children or inconsequential lies:
I fibbed about the price of dinner so they weren’t embarrassed.
The origins of fib aren’t known for certain. It’s possible that it comes from a shortening of fable, and there’s evidence of the fun word fible-fable (meaning “nonsense”) from the 1500s that could have led to fib. Fible-fable is an example of reduplication, like razzle-dazzle or super-duper, which connects fib to the way children naturally love to play with language.
”What everybody else means. You said you’d marry me.”
Mally gave a little shriek.
”Never! Good gracious, Roger, what a horrible fib!”
—Patricia Wentworth, Daily Boston Globe, 23 Jun. 1933
Definition: to use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone
It looks like there’s equal in equivocate, and the first uses of this word meant “to have the same sound” or “to resemble closely,” and it came to have other meanings about the expression of ambiguity in language. For example, a now-obsolete meaning was “to use words that have a double meaning”; the related adjective equivocal originally meant “having two or more meanings,” and a contrasting word univocal, referred to words with just one meaning.
Today, equivocate means “to avoid committing to something” or “to use words that have more than one sense in order to say one thing while actually meaning another.” It is a word commonly used about politicians.
And lastly, perceiving that the doctrine of all that fide in the cases of conscience, making it lawfull for them to equivocate with their adversaries in their answeres….
—Edwin Sandys, A relation of the state of religion, 1605
Definition: to tell a lie under oath
To perjure yourself is to tell what is false when you are sworn to tell the truth. Perjure comes from French and traces back to the Latin word perjurare meaning “to swear falsely”: per- means “detrimentally,” or “for the worse,” and jurare means “to swear,” and is also the root of jury. Perjure is usually used with a reflexive pronoun such as oneself, himself, herself or themselves, as in “he perjured himself during the trial.” The crime of forcing another person to lie under oath is referred to as suborning perjury.
Two related words deserve mention when discussing perjure: abjure has the same -jure root that means “to swear,” and means “to renounce upon oath,” or, more broadly, “to reject.” And forswear comes from Old English roots that form a parallel of perjure. The two are exact synonyms when used with the meaning “to swear falsely,” but forswear is more commonly used in a different way, to mean “to promise to give up (something),” as in “He said he would forswear cigarettes.”
The Recorder, by advising such a Measure, so palpably ignorant and foolish, has shewn himself ignorant of a Point of Law known to every Attorney’s Clerk who has served only six Months; or else he wilfully perjured himself by giving knowingly false Counsel to the City.
—Jackson’s Oxford Journal (Oxford, Eng.), 20 Oct. 1770
Half-truths may occupy that delicate middle ground between verity and the thing you say when you can’t quite bring yourself to tell the truth. We offer two possible meanings for the word (“a statement that is only partially true” and “a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent to deceive”), so if one doesn’t quite work for you just say that you meant the other.
I Should do ill to print a half truth, whereof I pretend to be an intire lover.
— Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes Decius, An Answer to the Lord George Digbies apology for himself, 1642
Suppressio veri, which comes directly from New Latin, is defined as “suppression of the truth.” The term is primarily found in legal contexts, and not so very common in the United States (we label it Roman, civil, & Scots law). Suppressio veri is often contrasted with another legal import from New Latin, suggestio falsi, which is defined as “suggestion of an untruth; a false statement as opposed to suppression of the truth.”
It has long been a matter of public notoriety that our degraded administration were habitually guilty of that species of lying which, in the schools, is denominated supressio veri, the suppression of truth, a vice every way as criminal as the bold suggestion of falsehood, and much more mean and cowardly.
—The Gleaner (Wilkes-Barre, PA), 24 Sept. 1813
Sometimes one wishes to call someone else a teller of untruths, but would like to do so with a bit more emphasis, flair, and biblical undercurrents than may be found in the word liar. On such occasions one may employ Ananias. The word is generally capitalized, as it is the name of an early Christian who was struck dead for lying. It also, however, functions as a simple synonym for liar.
If you would prefer a fancy liar word without biblical reference you may instead go with pseudologist.
’Give you money!’ exclaimed the wife. ‘That’s bold as brass you be, axing for it. You pretend that you handed your money over to me, and I knows, by the way you fumbles wi’ something in your pocket, that you’re a keepin’ back of a part. You’re a veritable Ananias-Saphira, and’ll come to just the same bad end.’
—The Cornhill Magazine (London, Eng.), Dec. 1900
A fabulist may refer to one of a number of people; “a creator or writer of fables especially that carry a moral lesson,” “a professional teller of tales” (a sense now obsolete), and “an inventor of falsehoods” (otherwise known as a liar). The first of these meanings is the oldest, dating in use back to the 16th century, and would be applied to such well-known figures as Aesop.
And any loyal subject who asserts the pure and patriotic motives of Mr. Pitt, and ventures to question the somewhat peculiar readings of history which Mr. Gladstone has determined to adopt upon Irish questions, must be prepared for twenty-five pages of unmitigated abuse, and to be branded before his fellow-men with the awful titles of “fabulist” and “historiaster”!
— Western Mail (Cardiff, Wal.), 18 Nov. 1887
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adj.
• crooked (adjective)
- shady,
- illegal.
• deceitful (adjective)
- dis-ingenuous,
- most rascal,
- de signing,
- under handed,
- more deceiving,
- most impostrous,
- slick,
- most deceiving,
- more astucious,
- most beguiling,
- more feline,
- mis leading,
- dis ingenuous,
- un trustworthy,
- more beguiling,
- de-signing,
- mis-leading,
- more impostrous,
- most astucious,
- more rascal,
- under-handed,
- most illusory,
- most feline,
- un-trustworthy.
• deceptive (adjective)
- seeming,
- snide,
- Imposturous.
• dishonest (adjective)
- dissimulating,
- Prevaricating,
- misstating,
- perfidious,
- Equivocating,
- misleading,
- double-dealing,
- untruthful,
- committing perjury,
- Inventing,
- delusive,
- wrong,
- deceptive,
- two-timing,
- falsifying,
- dissembling,
- fibbing,
- delusory,
- guileful,
- double-crossing,
- untrue,
- misrepresenting,
- mendacious.
• double-dealing (adjective)
- left handed,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- most swindling,
- more swindling,
- more twotiming,
- more two-timing,
- most two timing,
- more two timing,
- doubledealing,
- lefthanded.
• evasive (adjective)
- casuistical,
- casuistic,
- Elusory,
- sophistical.
• false (adjective)
- cooked-up,
- Forsworn,
- Misrepresentative,
- mythomaniac,
- rascally,
- off the mark,
- scoundrelly,
- contrary to fact,
- inexact,
- falsehearted.
• hypocritical (adjective)
- jivier,
- more smooth spoken,
- more feigning,
- un-natural,
- most moralistic,
- hypo critical,
- most feigning,
- pietistic,
- more smoothspoken,
- more smooth-spoken,
- hypo-critical,
- more moralistic,
- self righteous,
- most smoothspoken,
- smoothtongued,
- smoothspoken,
- more caviling,
- most smooth-spoken,
- selfrighteous,
- feigning,
- smooth spoken,
- most smooth spoken,
- most caviling,
- smooth tongued,
- jiviest.
• insincere (adjective)
- in sincere,
- more put-on,
- in-sincerer,
- in sincerer,
- more put on,
- more puton,
- dis simulating,
- in-sincerest,
- in sincerest,
- in-sincere,
- most dissimulating,
- dis-simulating,
- most put on,
- most put-on,
- more dissimulating,
- puton,
- insincere,
- most puton.
• mala fide (adjective)
- mala fide.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- hypocritical,
- deceitful,
- false,
- imprecise,
- crooked,
- pretended,
- shifty,
- commiting perjury,
- trumped up,
- smooth-spoken,
- pharisaical,
- moralistic,
- Truthless,
- roguish,
- unloyal,
- Impostrous,
- prevaricative,
- swearing falsely,
- evasive,
- out of line,
- prevaricatory,
- two-faced,
- Astucious,
- Double dealing,
- jivey,
- bearing false witness.
• pretended (adjective)
- masked.
• resting (adjective)
- supported by,
- abed,
- settled on,
- located,
- nonactive,
- up on,
- set on.
• roguish (adjective)
- impish.
• sham (adjective)
- dummier,
- more imitation,
- more plaster,
- dummiest,
- most plaster,
- most imitation.
• shifty (adjective)
- more contriving,
- most dodging,
- more dodging,
- more unhonest,
- un honest,
- fly by night,
- more prevaricative,
- more conniving,
- most contriving,
- most prevaricatory,
- most conniving,
- most unhonest,
- Unhonest,
- most prevaricative,
- more prevaricatory,
- un-honest.
• trumped up (adjective)
- made up,
- de vised,
- most fabricated,
- in vented,
- de-vised,
- more devised,
- most devised,
- in-vented.
• two-faced (adjective)
- twofaced,
- two faced,
- most backstabbing,
- more backstabbing.
• untrue (adjective)
- un truer,
- un-true,
- more unloyal,
- un-loyal,
- most unloyal,
- in-constant,
- un true,
- un truest,
- un loyal,
- un-truer,
- most imprecise,
- un-truest,
- out line.
• untruthful (adjective)
- scheming,
- devious.
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- unreliable.
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- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unsound.
• act (noun)
- fabrication,
- lying,
- prevarication.
• deception (noun)
- cozenage,
- fast one,
- dupery,
- hypocrisy,
- beguilements,
- boondoggle,
- disinformation,
- Defraudation,
- cunnings,
- boondoggles,
- deceptiveness,
- beguilement,
- dissimulation,
- hokum,
- fraudulence.
• equivocation (noun)
- coverup,
- evasion,
- runaround,
- quibbling routine,
- cover up,
- shufflings,
- double meaning,
- tergiversation,
- amphibology,
- equivocality.
• libel (noun)
- maliciou.
• mendacity (noun)
- un truthfulnesses,
- un truthfulness,
- un-truthfulnesses,
- un-truthfulness.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- Equivoque,
- phoniness,
- equivocation,
- phonies,
- libel,
- deception,
- vilification,
- slicks,
- traducement,
- falsifications,
- falsification,
- SLIES,
- mendacity.
• phoniness (noun)
- backhandeds,
- twofaceds,
- perfidiou,
- disingenuou,
- un faithfuls,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- un-faithfuls,
- deceptives,
- deviou,
- hypocriticals,
- deceitfuls,
- pretentiou,
- evasives,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- dissimulatings,
- un-trues,
- mendaciou,
- snides,
- dissemblings,
- falses,
- faithlesses,
- shifties,
- ambidextrou,
- untruthfuls,
- two faceds,
- duplicitou,
- dis ingenuousness,
- untrues,
- two-faceds,
- un trues,
- dis ingenuousnesses,
- unfaithfuls.
• prostrate (noun)
- fallen,
- dropped.
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Other synonyms:
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- dishonest,
- tying,
- Dueling,
- supine,
- funneling,
- Equaling.
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- prostrate,
- prone.
• bragging
- talk.
• deceit
- dishonesty.
• misleading
- sham.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- insincerity,
- depression,
- borrow,
- have,
- misleadingly,
- treacherously,
- spread out,
- deceitfully,
- sanctimonious,
- exist,
- cunningly,
- fallacious,
- feigned,
- Covin,
- dodging,
- exaggeration,
- pseudo,
- made-up,
- Deceiving,
- inactive,
- dishonourable,
- betray,
- sanctimony,
- duplicity,
- lounging,
- truthlessness,
- fraud,
- deceitfulness,
- disgrace,
- misinform,
- forswearing,
- faking,
- low,
- supposititious,
- outspread,
- belie,
- put to bed,
- unfair,
- cheat,
- disloyalty,
- fabricated,
- bear,
- astutely,
- mendaciously,
- resupine,
- dishonestly,
- lowness,
- corrupt,
- sprawling,
- spuriously,
- perversion,
- sly,
- artificial,
- Pseudology,
- Fudging,
- prostration,
- squatness,
- hold,
- Unveracious,
- duplicitous,
- stretched out,
- lay,
- evasiveness,
- formation,
- dwell,
- pretending,
- charlatanism,
- repose,
- loll,
- Discumbency,
- Pecksniffian,
- tartuffery,
- disloyal,
- fill,
- misrepresentation,
- fictitious,
- construction,
- sprawled,
- horizontal,
- leaning,
- recumbent,
- fraudulently,
- groveling,
- subjacent,
- disingenuous,
- delusion,
- cheating,
- machiavellian,
- lolling,
- liar,
- fable,
- Improbity,
- faithlessness,
- flat,
- crafty,
- counterfeit,
- allegory,
- lie,
- artifice,
- quackery,
- Couchancy,
- bring down,
- infidelity,
- wrongly,
- unreal,
- draped,
- Decumbence,
- meretricious,
- slimy,
- deceivingly,
- obtain,
- Recumbency,
- Reposing,
- equivocal,
- ungenuine,
- Time-serving,
- designing,
- take,
- capriciously,
- insincerely,
- azimuth,
- supination,
- excuse,
- fake,
- lie down,
- recline,
- occupy,
- Lawing,
- janus-faced,
- thievish,
- fraudulent,
- ambiguous,
- fictionalization,
- shrewdly,
- being dishonest,
- untrustworthy,
- accept,
- falsehood,
- mythomania,
- underhand,
- Subreption,
- delude,
- fakery,
- crawling,
- unscrupulous,
- catch,
- subterfuge,
- squat,
- chicanery,
- foxy,
- Fabling,
- untruthfulness,
- pharisaic,
- nether,
- untruthfully,
- Perjured,
- reclining,
- Jacent,
- indeterminate,
- unctuous,
- dishonor,
- bed down,
- spurious,
- idle,
- nether most,
- double-talk,
- Stumpiness,
- manufacture,
- admit,
- sneaky,
- deceive,
- quibbling,
- unjustly,
- false swearing,
- thieving,
- Hollowly,
- deceptively,
- untruth,
- craftily,
- chicane,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- deviously,
- artfully,
- MALA FIDES,
- decumbent,
- shortness,
- Couche,
- crouched,
- treachery,
- Accubation,
- incorrectly,
- Decumbency,
- perfidiously,
- unfairly,
- leaching,
- trickily,
- receive,
- unprincipled,
- debased,
- two-facedness,
- disrepute,
- faithless,
- bent,
- lies,
- mendaciousness,
- assembly,
- neap,
- Pharisaism,
- spread,
- outstretched,
- supineness,
- bogus,
- mislead,
- deceit,
- cheatingly,
- wily,
- lying down,
- invention,
- fibbery,
- couchant,
- adopt,
- engross,
- trickery,
- Accumbency,
- Reclination,
- Resupination,
- vulpine,
- falsely,
- betrayal,
- sophistry,
- carry,
- squattiness,
- falsity,
- slippery,
- pick,
- forgery,
- cram,
- shiftily,
- accumbent,
- Charlatanry,
- hypocritically,
- insidiously,
- perjury,
- Concocted,
- technical procumbent,
- bad faith,
- lay down,
- debasement,
- procumbent,
- knavish,
- spread eagle,
- fiction,
- sprawl,
- Resting,
- proneness,
- sanctimoniousness,
- guile,
- falseness,
- get,
- Phariseeism,
- underhanded,
- artful,
- unfaithfully.
How to use «Lying» in context?
Lying is a big part of life. We tell lies to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our friends. It’s a way of life.
But sometimes lying is a bad idea. Lying can hurt our relationships and make things worse. Lying can make us feel bad about ourselves.
When it comes to lying, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, always be truthful to the people you’re lying to. Second, be careful about what you say. Third, be honest about the consequences of lying. And finally, be honest with yourself.
Paraphrases for Lying:
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Noun, plural
lies.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Adjective
elongated.
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Noun, plural
falsehoods, fools, untruths, liars.
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Noun, singular or mass
falsehood, liar.
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Verb, past tense
elaborated, enlarged, expanded, extended, liar, spread, stole, Broadened, Widened, Punctuated.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
being, believing, belonging, beneath, bordering, broadening, burying, cheating, covering, crossing, dead, death, diverting, ducking, dumping, dying, encompassing, expanding, falling, fighting, find, flying, going, hiding, history, increasing, keeping, know, lagging, lasting, laying, lengthening, lit, living, looking, misleading, misreading, mistaking, not, opposing, pouring, raising, ranging, reaching, reclining, relaxing, retaining, riding, running, sitting, soothing, spreading, staging, standing, stay, stretching, suffering, thinking, travelling, underlying, underneath, waiting, watching, widening, wrong, Averaging, Awaiting, Deceiving, Drooling, Elevating, Enlarging, Everything, Expecting, Experiencing, Extending, Fooling, Forming, Hinging, Hoping, Instituting, Kidding, L, Occurring, Overthrowing, Referring, Relying, Residing, Resting, Reversing, Roosting, Consisting, Constituting, Spanning, Staying, Suggesting, exiting, guarding, fucking.
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elongate.
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Homophones for Lying:
- longwise, limnos, lanchou, lemming, lanky, lansa, links, lammas, lanugo, luoyang, lionize, lank, linage, lining, linaceae, limosa, longish, line coach, leniency, lanius, lange, lounge, lallans, linkage, lunacy, lanchow, linguica, limning, lanseh, lens, lanzhou, lung, lowness, Lowliness, longyi, longways, lemnos, lioness, lungyi, luminesce, luminous, leeuwenhoek, lyons, luminance, linnaeus, lionise, lamaze, lemon cheese, lungi, linux, lemnaceae, lennoaceae, lemon juice, lineage, Lillian Gish, lingua, leaning, lime juice, lynch, lonas, Lyonnaise Sauce, low mass, linz, languish, liomys, lunge, lulling, leanness, limax, launch, long ago, loyang, ling, lilongwe, lummox, leuwenhoek, lance, link, Ling Ko, low-lying, loaning, lenience, lion monkey, laying, Lynx, Lamiaceae, lyonnais, lemniscus, lameness, lunch, lingo, language, leymus, lense, linac, Lamna Nasus, long, loins, long-ago, launce, lemmus, lyonnaise.
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paltering, fibbing.
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misrepresentation, falsification.
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noun
the telling of lies, or false statements; untruthfulness: From boyhood, he has never been good at lying.
adjective
telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful; deceitful; false: a lying report.
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Origin of lying
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First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; see origin at lie1, -ing1, -ing2
OTHER WORDS FROM lying
ly·ing·ly, adverb
Words nearby lying
lyefish, lye hominy, Lyell, Lyell, Charles, lygaeid, lying, lying down, Lying Flat, lying-in, lyke-wake, Lyle
Other definitions for lying (2 of 2)
verb
present participle of lie2.
OTHER WORDS FROM lying
ly·ing·ly, adverb
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Words related to lying
misleading, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, double-dealing, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, inventing, misrepresenting, misstating, prevaricating, two-timing, wrong, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, false, guileful, mendacious
How to use lying in a sentence
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You can do this lying down, sitting, or standing, anytime throughout the day.
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Hunt witnessed firsthand McCarthy’s lying and grandstanding.
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Mayorkas admits these are temporary solutions that don’t tackle the under-lying problems.
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We found the patient lying in bed, contracted and shivering, so short of breath he could barely speak.
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What is worse than his lying is the number of people who believe him even when the truth is placed in front of them.
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Orlandi told The Daily Beast that Agca might be lying, but he should still be heard.
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Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him.
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Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred.
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“Lying is intentionally, intentionally misleading someone, all right,” he told Newsmax.
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If Jackie is lying, she will likely—and sadly—suffer for it.
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This, however, did not apply to the waters lying directly around the Poloe and Flatland groups.
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Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
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The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
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Indeed, a score of bodies lying there had not been seen by Malcolm during his first frenzied examination of the house.
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Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
British Dictionary definitions for lying (1 of 2)
verb
the present participle and gerund of lie 1
British Dictionary definitions for lying (2 of 2)
verb
the present participle and gerund of lie 2
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лежащий, лживый, лежачий, ложный, ложь, лежание, лживость
прилагательное ↓
- ложный; лживый; обманчивый
lying rumour — ложный слух 
lying prophet — лжепророк
lying advertisements — объявления, вводящие в заблуждение
- pres. p. от lie1
- лежащий; лежачий
lying on the seabed! — воен. легли на грунт! (команда на подлодке)
- pres. p. от lie2
существительное
- ложь; лживость
- лежание
- место для лежания, для отдыха
- упор лёжа (гимнастика)
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
dirty clothes lying around (or about) — грязная одежда, разбросанная вокруг
land lying baked in the heat — земля, спёкшаяся на солнце
lying fast asleep on the sofa — крепко уснув на диване
to make a dive for the gun lying on the floor — броситься к пистолету, лежащему на полу
lying assurances — лживые заверения
lying opposite — противолежащий
lying / supine position — лежачее положение
lying-dog — сеттер
flat-lying gravity fault — пологопадающий сброс
flat-lying joint — пологая трещина
lying fold — лежачая складка
lying in — послеродовое состояние; находящийся; роды
Примеры с переводом
I know he is lying.
Я знаю, что он врёт.
Lying oiled in the sun.
Лежа на солнце, обмазавшись маслом.
His lying really gets me.
Его ложь меня ужасно раздражает /бесит/.
He would die before lying.
Он предпочтёт смерть лжи. Он скорее умрёт, чем солжёт.
Smith accused her of lying.
Смит обвинил ее во лжи.
It was obvious that Gina was lying.
Было очевидно, что Джина лгала.
People who are lying tend to avoid eye contact.
Люди, которые лгут, стараются избегать зрительного контакта.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
I had a feeling that she was lying 
…that lying son of a gun told me that the used car had never been in an accident…
I’m not going to take this lying down!
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Фразовые глаголы
lying in — родильный, роды, послеродовое состояние
Возможные однокоренные слова
inlying — внутренний, лежащий внутри
underlying — основной, лежащий в основе, лежащий или расположенный под
overlying — лежать на, лежать над, заспать, задушить во время сна