Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being prostrate. See
lie . - noun A place where one lies.
- Mendacious; false; deceptive: as, a lying rumor.
- noun Falsehood; untruthfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- of
lie , to tell a falsehood. - of
lie , to be supported horizontally. - (Arch.), [R.] a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal.
- (Naut.) having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.
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- verb Present participle of
lie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Etymologies
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Examples
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And you ignore the fact that Clinton pissed away 3 years of his term lying about getting a blow-job from a 22 year old in the oval office?
Hillary On Bill: I Understand That "It's A Lonely Job In The White House" 2009
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Is that what they call lying in Obamaland these days, "aggressive rhetoric"?
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And Sarah Palin lashing out at what she calls lying, pathetic bloggers.
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DERSHOWITZ: I want one case where there has been a disbarment that is not a person denied admission to the bar, a disbarment from somebody who has no prior record, who has engaged in what you call lying at the deposition.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should President Clinton Be Disbarred? - May 23, 2000 2000
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Originally the lands were fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, the city municipalities owning the Emperor for their lord, and the great family of Hapsburg, in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of
A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"That's what I call lying," said Ted Kaptchuk, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"That's what I call lying," said Ted Kaptchuk, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University.
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Riley, who was married to the abrasive, annoying 23-year-old blonde for 10 months, is now revealing what he calls her lying, cheating and stealing ways.
The Hollywood Gossip Free Britney 2010
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you lost because your policies are horseshit. further, the great body politic has figured out that every case you numbnuts make is based on crap figures, limbaughian hallucinations or outright greed. i think the term lying swill comes quicly to mind.
"The bottom line is that they were elected on a mandate to get the nation out of the mess in Iraq." Ann Althouse 2007
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Then again, the word "lying" is dead-on accurate as well.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics 2010
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In China, there’s a parallel rise in “tangping/lying flat” among Chinese young people who are “rejecting high-pressure jobs” in favour of a “low-pressure life”, and in “bai lan” (letting things rot), “a voluntary retreat” from pursuing goals that are now seen as “too difficult to achieve”.
‘We cannot simply go, go, go.’ What is girl mossing, the wellness trend that rejects hustle culture? Anna Halafoff 2024
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