A false statement made with the intention to deceive.
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Examples for "lie "
Examples for "lie "
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.
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.
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.
6 Embarked on the toboggan slope of untruth the sailor slid smoothly downwards.
7 Yet the influence of the untruth will continue for many a year.
8 She would go on questioning; he could not tell her an untruth .
9 And she had disclaimed and buried the incident with a decisive untruth .
10 What manner of marriage could be built upon a foundation of untruth ?
11 And Percival believed that to be an untruth equally with the other.
12 This surprising and ingenious untruth came from her without the slightest effort.
13 She would not be guilty of a wilful untruth for the world.
14 She was ready to believe an untruth rather than the incredible truth.
15 Bertie told her a deliberate untruth , and she at once discovered it.
16 I trembled as I uttered an untruth , for I said it was.
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