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Synonyms for lying
ˈlaɪ ɪŋly·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, untruthAntonyms:
candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
lying
Synonyms:
mendacious, false, untrue, untruthful
Princeton's WordNet
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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Editors Contribution
mythomane
not telling the truth; not being worthy
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lyingadjective
Synonyms:
false, mendacious, untruthful, untruelyingnoun
Synonyms:
falsehood
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lyingadjective
Synonyms:
untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitfullyingnoun
Synonyms:
falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1735 | fiction | |
#1988 | manufacturing | |
#2379 | assembly | |
#2392 | false | |
#3421 | mens | |
#4241 | craft | |
#4311 | lies | |
#4480 | fraud | |
#4929 | lie | |
#6685 | manufacture | |
#7137 | lying | |
#12310 | fabrication | |
#15524 | deception | |
#16507 | lied | |
#18567 | liar | |
#19485 | fable | |
#20106 | imposition | |
#21506 | hypocrisy | |
#25925 | guile | |
#26623 | cunning | |
#30154 | deceit | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#33029 | delusion | |
#35918 | finesse | |
#41919 | falsehood | |
#43619 | iie | |
#56510 | trickery | |
#62038 | elongate | |
#69173 | duplicity | |
#108989 | untruth | |
#123607 | untruthful | |
#131578 | equivocation | |
#174612 | mendacious | |
#176365 | dissimulation | |
#211784 | deceitfulness | |
#218824 | prevarication | |
#286431 | evasiveness |
How to use lying in a sentence?
To see a child in such a position, lying dead in a beach at a country that was suppose to give him refuge and a future ... seeing a child who was running away from war and death ... I suppose the image talks for itself.
It was frustrating because I knew it was all lies. And I was like there is none of that. I’m not a White supremacist or a racist, what the media is saying. And there's nothing to show that and it's just disappointing. I'm like they're supposed to report the truth and the facts, yet, they're out here lying.
As far as I know, they are all lying, that's our position. Our position -- Mr. Kelly has done nothing wrong.
I don't want to get into whether or not The President's lying. I can only say that I do have confidence in our intelligence agencies as currently constituted.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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