as in deceives
to make a statement one knows to be untrue
would I lie to you about that?
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as in lurks
to remain out of sight
paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout
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as in tales
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
he wanted to deny the accusation, but he couldn't tell a lie
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Recent Examples of lies
Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
Secrets and lies were the name of the game on Grey's Anatomy.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The breach led by Peters heightened concerns that rogue election workers sympathetic to partisan lies could use their access and knowledge to attack voting processes from within.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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To uncover the truth about a pernicious insurance industry practice, staffers with the New York’s state attorney general’s office decided to tell a series of lies.
—Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
Secrets and lies were the name of the game on Grey's Anatomy.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The breach led by Peters heightened concerns that rogue election workers sympathetic to partisan lies could use their access and knowledge to attack voting processes from within.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lies
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The project is heavy on woozy tales of the erotic ups and emotional downs of falling hard, and the deadpan, adrift flows of Scoob and friends, like professional skirt-chaser Shaudy Kash, are like bumping Baby Smoove and Veeze with brain fog.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
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But do not look for tales of her in the old songs.Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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That means not just naming your values and putting them in a frame on the boardroom wall, but also making a real effort to create and share stories that speak to those values.Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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But these polished descriptions, like many attempts to summarize compelling stories, rarely convey the excitement of reading a book that genuinely surprises you.Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Both sides accuse each other of making outdated assumptions, ignoring inconvenient realities and dishing out falsehoods.Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Drake’s stardom is, seemingly in Lamar’s eyes, hollow, built on a foundation of falsehoods, or at least exaggerations, and done without principles.Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Lies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lies. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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