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Meanings of lie in English
Synonyms
Examples for "falsehood"
Examples for "falsehood"
1
The climax is in the deliberate falsehood contained in the closing words.
2
Say yes or no; one word will suffice; but beware of falsehood.
3
No virtue assists itself with falsehood; truth is never matter of error.
4
Both are forms of falsehood, ways of reducing and demeaning our humanity.
5
There is always a propriety in truth, and an impropriety in falsehood.
1
And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth.
2
But the senses witness to the untruth of what some maintain; viz.
3
He told the untruth unblushingly; it was by no means his first.
4
The closest she could come to untruth was to refrain from speaking.
5
Clearly that's a stereotypical untruth, although that's never stopped the Fiver before.
1
That is not true; and this is not the place for prevarication.
2
Anything less will feed into the sterile politics of drift and prevarication.
3
But his grand, simple, truthful spirit perceived no prevarication in her words.
4
You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication.
5
And I will say this, that here prevarication would avail you little.
Usage of lie in English
1
The fitness and the beauty lie in the felicity of the language.
2
The principal commercial forests lie in the South-Western districts of the Colony.
3
Clark said responsibility for the situation must lie with the RNZ board.
4
It is false; it is a lie; it is all a lie.
5
The rest of the hunters lie in wait in a secure place.
6
Tells about word-association tests; why courts don't admit lie-detectors in evidence, etc.
7
The early pioneers of the great Northwest civilization lie in neglected graves.
8
Your obligation doesn't lie in the literary field; it is real-andpersonal.
9
The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
10
The legs lie nearly one above the other; the feet partially crossed.
11
In England the farm-house faces the road and the premises lie behind.
12
The danger will only lie in the last part of the journey.
13
The people in those States lie at the mercy of the nation.
14
They lie in wait in the narrow passage between Samos and Ithaca.
15
The campaign lie is the greatest worker in the canvass for votes.
16
They do not lie and rot in the sun and the mists.
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Translations for lie
Catalan
Lie through the time
Lie across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Canada
Common
Australia
Common
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