Significados de direct falsehood em inglês

And you must never be guilty of definite, direct falsehood.

Nor could he equivocate, for he considered equivocation little better than a direct falsehood.

To avoid the consequences he would practice deception, and utter direct falsehood without compunction or hesitation.

After all, she assured herself a trifle uncomfortably, she had in no way told a direct falsehood.

He could not utter a direct falsehood.

A few days before he would not have scrupled at the broadest equivocation, or even at a direct falsehood.

To the stern interrogation as to where he had been so late, he replied with equivocation, and finally with direct falsehood.

The truth respecting the washwoman was very artfully disguised, and yet so managed as to allow her to elude the imputation of direct falsehood.

She would not utter a direct falsehood, and her answers, being evasive, only created stronger suspicions against her in the mind of Lord Rawdon.

She had openly defended me, saved me from arrest; without telling a direct falsehood she had, nevertheless, led these men into a grievous misunderstanding.

"Nothing can justify a direct falsehood," said the Duke of Omnium.

"I came by it the other night, when I went to the theatre," said George; for he could not tell a direct falsehood.