Antonyms 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.

   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, lie, prevarication, trickery, untruth

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1. lying

   Antonyms:
   true, veracious

   Synonyms:
   mendacious, false, untrue, untruthful

Matched Categories

1. • Falsification

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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. lyingadjective

   Synonyms:
   untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful

2. lyingnoun

   Synonyms:
   falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction

How to use lying in a sentence?

1. Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate:

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

2. Daniel Suneson:

   In a putative self-defence situation, the violence must still be proportionate. Here we have three people delivering kicks and punches to a person lying down, the three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events.

3. Nan Whaley:

   Sen. Brown was next to me the entire time, the senator was there. President Donald Trump talked about these issues. I think that's pretty hard to say President Donald Trump were both lying.

4. Mark Pollock:

   I fractured my skull, broke my back and the damage to my spinal cord left me paralyzed from the waist down, at the time, people who found me lying on the concrete thought I was dead. Even doctors predicted I was going to die.

5. Ringo Choi:

   We’re lying on the floor, it is very easy for us to have a rebound.

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