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Meanings of tell a falsehood in English
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Usage of tell a falsehood in English
1
If I say that he is a gentleman, I tell a falsehood.
2
Mr. Talboys is a gentleman; he would not tell a falsehood, I presume.
3
She is too good a little girl to tell a falsehood.
4
The colonel interrupted her sternly: Why should you tell a falsehood?
5
Who but he could have induced you to tell a falsehood so obstinately?
6
What I tell you now is true; you know I never tell a falsehood.
7
Sigismund hesitated to tell a falsehood in his last extremity.
8
Really it was too much trouble to tell a falsehood.
9
It is wrong, it is sinful, to tell a falsehood.
10
Please do not attempt to tell a falsehood, Mr. Prale.
11
Robinson could not tell a falsehood," said Fritz, "because he never existed.
12
But I've got you here because I don't think you will tell a falsehood.
13
When did you ever know me to tell a falsehood?'
14
Was it simply to meet-totalk-andafterwards to tell a falsehood to one's parents?
15
You asked me if I had, and I did not care to tell a falsehood.
16
Neither would I tell a falsehood to obtain leave.
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