Antonyms for lie
laɪlie

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1. lie

   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.

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

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

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1. lienoun

   Antonyms:
   truth, fact, veracity

   Synonyms:
   falsehood, untruth, fabrication, subterfuge, evasion, fib, fiction, falsity

2. lieverb

   Antonyms:
   rise, move, stir

   Synonyms:
   rest, repose, be, remain

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   • Falsehood
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1. lie, prevaricationnoun

   a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

   Antonyms:
   sit down, stand, stand up, sit

   Synonyms:
   evasiveness, equivocation, prevarication, lying, fabrication

2. Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lienoun

   Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

   Antonyms:
   stand, stand up, sit, sit down

   Synonyms:
   prevarication

3. lieverb

   position or manner in which something is situated

   Antonyms:
   sit, stand, sit down, stand up

   Synonyms:
   prevarication

4. lieverb

   be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

   Antonyms:
   sit, stand, sit down, stand up

   Synonyms:
   dwell, lie in, rest, lie down, consist

5. lieverb

   be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

   "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"

   Antonyms:
   sit, stand, sit down, stand up

   Synonyms:
   dwell, lie in, rest, lie down, consist

6. dwell, consist, lie, lie inverb

   originate (in)

   "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

   Antonyms:
   stand up, sit, stand, sit down

   Synonyms:
   lie in, comprise, dwell, populate, harp, lie down, brood, live, consist, rest, inhabit

7. lieverb

   be and remain in a particular state or condition

   "lie dormant"

   Antonyms:
   stand, sit, stand up, sit down

   Synonyms:
   dwell, lie in, rest, lie down, consist

8. lieverb

   tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

   "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

   Antonyms:
   sit, stand up, stand, sit down

   Synonyms:
   dwell, lie in, rest, lie down, consist

9. lie, restverb

   have a place in relation to something else

   "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"

   Antonyms:
   stand, stand up, sit down, sit

   Synonyms:
   lie in, catch one's breath, reside, dwell, pillow, roost, remain, lie down, breathe, repose, stay, perch, consist, take a breather, rest

10. lie down, lieverb

    assume a reclining position

    "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

    Antonyms:
    sit, stand, stand up, sit down

    Synonyms:
    dwell, lie in, rest, lie down, consist

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1. lienoun

   Synonyms:
   untruth, falsehood, fib, fiction, fabrication, subterfuge, evasion, misrepresentation

2. lieverb

   Synonyms:
   recline

How to use lie in a sentence?

1. Ashok Gulati:

   Every year, a large amount of funds allocated for irrigation lie unutilized and that's because of lethargy, red tape, inept administration and a lack of political will.

2. Creighton Waters:

   We have to remember this guy was an experienced lawyer, he’s a part-time assistant solicitor and there’s 100 years of prosecution legacy in his family… I felt like he believed he could look at that jury and really convince them. But I felt if I got him talking he would eventually lie and they would get to see that in real time.

3. Gerry Adams:

   This state is not the Republic proclaimed in 1916 and current efforts to pretend that it is are an insult to the men who lie here.

4. Lyndsey Graham:

   At the end of the day, to our European friends, this is not working, you can go to Moscow until you turn blue in the face. Stand up to what is clearly a lie and a danger.

5. Adam Schiff:

   Abundantly and frequently, and in just about every way, when he says to the country 'we don't know,' that's a lie. When he says 'we had no contacts with the Russians,' that's a lie. When his son says 'I had no contacts with Wikileaks,' that's a lie. When General Flynn said 'I never discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador,' that was a lie. And unfortunately, the list goes on and on.

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