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He has lied to and threatened us in the press nearly every time he sees us.

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"Michel lied unapologetically and unrelentingly to carry out his schemes," prosecutors said.

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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” Alex says in response to the prosecutor questioning why he lied about his whereabouts on the night of the murders.

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He said that Mr Lynch had "not only perpetrated an enormous fraud, but lied about it at every stage".

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“I—I may have seen it, my lord,” she half lied.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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