Another word for lie
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Verb
To be or place oneself in a prostrate or recumbent position.
- To lengthen, widen, or distend:
- To cause to extend from one place to another or across a given space:
- To make taut; tighten:
- The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
- Freedom from worry; peace of mind.
- Calmness; tranquility.
See also:To take repose, as by sleeping or lying quietly.
- To lengthen, widen, or distend:
- To cause to extend from one place to another or across a given space:
- To make taut; tighten:
- A period of inactivity, relaxation, or sleep:
- Sleep or the refreshment resulting from inactivity or sleep:
- The repose of death:
- The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
- Freedom from worry; peace of mind.
- Calmness; tranquility.
See also:To have an inherent basis
- A period of inactivity, relaxation, or sleep:
- Sleep or the refreshment resulting from inactivity or sleep:
- The repose of death:
- To live in a place permanently or for an extended period.
- To be inherently present; exist:
- To be vested, as a power or right:
- The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
- Freedom from worry; peace of mind.
- Calmness; tranquility.
- To be inherent or innate.
- To have actual being; be real.
- To have life; live:
- To live at a minimal level; subsist:
- To live as a resident; reside.
- To exist in a given place or state:
- To fasten one's attention on something, especially moodily or persistently:
- To be made up or composed:
- To have a basis; reside or lie:
- To be compatible; accord:
See also:To make untrue declarations
- To make (oneself) guilty of perjury.
- To speak or write evasively; equivocate.
- To behave in an evasive or indecisive manner, usually in delay:
- To utter or say in an evasive manner.
- To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer engage in (an activity or habit, for example):
- To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer use or be associated with (something):
- To disavow under oath:
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- To tell a fib.
- To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
- To make false by altering or adding to:
- To counterfeit; forge:
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Noun
An untrue declaration
- Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- A gross untruth.
- a kind of story or folk tale characterized by intentionally ludicrous exaggeration and incredible incidents
- An implausible, boastful story.
- Something untrue; a lie.
- The condition of being false; lack of truth.
- Unfaithfulness.
- A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation:
- A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.
- A deliberate lie; a falsehood.
- An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events:
- An anecdote:
- A lie:
- A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation. A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation.
- Lack of veracity; untruthfulness.
- An untruth; a falsehood.
- The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
- Works in this category:
- A work within this category:
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- To tell a fib.
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- An absurd or highly improbable tale passed off as being true.
- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
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Another word for lie
Noun
An intentional misstatement
- Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
- Garbage fed to hogs; swill.
- Moonlight.
- Foolish talk or thought; nonsense.
- Illegally distilled whiskey.
- An earthenware vessel.
- A broken piece of earthenware.
- Foolish talk; nonsense:
- Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- A gross untruth.
- Something outstanding of its kind.
- An implausible, boastful story.
- One that corks bottles, for example.
- A remarkable or astounding person or thing.
- An often trivial, diplomatic or well-intentioned untruth.
- Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
- A trick or stratagem.
- To beguile; deceive.
- Abusively detractive language or utterance; calumny:
- The condition of disgrace suffered as a result of abuse or vilification; ill repute.
- The act or an instance of distorting.
- The condition of being distorted.
- A statement that twists fact; a misrepresentation.
- The act of forging something, especially the unlawful act of counterfeiting a document or object for the purposes of fraud or deception.
- Something that has been forged, especially a document that has been copied or remade to look like the original.
- The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.
- An incidence of such publication or broadcast.
- The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.
- The crime of willfully and knowingly making a false statement about a material fact while under oath.
- An act of committing such a crime:
- Present participle of revile.
- reproach; abuse; vilification
- slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination
- The act of reviling.
- A false or damaging accusation or insinuation:
- The act of slandering or libeling; defaming.
- A sprinkling, especially with holy water.
- A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
- The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
- Oral communication of false and malicious statements that damage the reputation of another.
- A false and malicious statement or report about someone.
- To utter a slander about.
- The use of deceit.
- The fact or state of being deceived.
- A ruse; a trick.
- a fabricating or being fabricated; construction; manufacture
- a fabricated thing; esp., a falsehood, false excuse, etc.
- A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
- The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander.
- An absurd or highly improbable tale passed off as being true.
- A tale or an account of questionable veracity; a lie.
- An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events:
- An anecdote:
- A lie:
- A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation:
- A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.
- A deliberate lie; a falsehood.
- The act of detracting or taking away.
- A derogatory or damaging comment on a person's character or reputation; disparagement:
- The act of defaming; calumny, slander, or libel.
- Deception used to achieve an end:
- A deceptive stratagem or device:
- Present participle of falsify.
- The characteristic of being false.
- The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
- A lie; a falsehood.
- A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation. A lie; deceitful or dishonest behavior; equivocation.
- (uncountable) The state of being untruthful; dishonesty.
- (countable) Something which is untrue; untruth.
- A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
- Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation:
- Dissemination of such misleading information.
- the state or quality of being deceptive
- A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.
- A story about legendary persons and exploits.
- A falsehood; a lie.
- A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society:
- Such stories considered as a group:
- A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal:
- The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
- An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
- The condition of being fraudulent
- A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
- The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
- Works in this category:
- A work within this category:
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- To tell a fib.
- Something untrue; a lie.
- The condition of being false; lack of truth.
- Unfaithfulness.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
See also:Antonyms:Anything calculated to mislead another
- The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
- A stratagem; a trick.
- The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
- The act or an instance of evading.
- A means of evading; a subterfuge.
Verb
To utter an untruth
- An adult male bovine mammal.
- The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.
- The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.
- (idiomatic) to exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.
- To deceive by guile or charm:
- To deprive (someone) of something by guile or deceit; cheat:
- To distract the attention of; divert:
- To talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate.
- To be capricious; trifle.
- To quibble, especially in bargaining.
- To constitute; to compose; to form.
- To compensate, fill in or catch up.
- To invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.).
- To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
- To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
- To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner:
- To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
- To make up; fabricate:
- To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about (someone).
- Evil or harmful in nature or effect:
- Intending or threatening harm or ill will; malevolent:
- To cause to hold a false belief; deceive thoroughly:
- To elude or evade.
- To frustrate the hopes or plans of.
- To disguise or conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.
- To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance.
- To conceal (one's intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance.
- To conceal one's true feelings or intentions.
- To draw against (a bank account) in excess of credit.
- To pull back too far:
- To spoil the effect of by exaggeration in telling or describing.
- To ornament with needlework:
- To make by means of needlework:
- To add embellishments or fanciful details to:
- To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.
- To add ornamental or fictitious details to:
- To state in exaggerated terms.
- To wind together (two or more threads, for example) so as to produce a single strand.
- To form in this manner:
- To wind or coil (vines or rope, for example) about something.
- To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope:
- To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience:
- To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.
- To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase:
- To corrupt (someone) morally.
- To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
- A person who is easily deceived or is used to carry out the designs of another.
- To deceive (an unwary person).
- To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer engage in (an activity or habit, for example):
- To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer use or be associated with (something):
- To disavow under oath:
- To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
- To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive:
- To speak or pronounce incorrectly:
- To speak mistakenly, inappropriately, or rashly.
- To state wrongly or falsely.
- To twist out of a proper or natural relation of parts; misshape:
- To cause to deviate from what is normal, reasonable, or accurate:
- To cause distortion in (a signal or waveform, for example).
- To consider, represent, or cause to appear as larger, more important, or more extreme than is actually the case; overstate:
- To make overstatements.
- To give an incorrect or misleading representation of.
- To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.
- To provide with incorrect information.
- To lead in the wrong direction.
- To give a wrong impression or lead toward a wrong conclusion, especially by intentionally deceiving.
- To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
- To catch by guile; ensnare.
- To practice deceit.
- To make; create.
- To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts:
- To concoct in order to deceive:
- To use equivocal language to deceive someone or avoid committing oneself to a position.
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- To tell a fib.
- To speak or write evasively; equivocate.
- To behave in an evasive or indecisive manner, usually in delay:
- To utter or say in an evasive manner.
- To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
- To make false by altering or adding to:
- To counterfeit; forge:
To be situated
- To carry on through, despite hardships; undergo or suffer:
- To put up with; tolerate:
- To continue in existence; last:
- To be greater in strength or influence; triumph:
- To be most common or frequent; be predominant:
- To be in force, use, or effect; be current: