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What is worse than his lying is the number of people who believe him even when the truth is placed in front of them.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND LET’S END ‘ALTERNATIVE FACTS’PETER ROSENSTEINDECEMBER 22, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
In general, the vast majority of his lying as president has been ad-libbed.
THE RNC WEAPONIZED EXHAUSTIONZACK BEAUCHAMPAUGUST 28, 2020VOX
She also wasn’t punished for lying, since the Congressional Human Rights Caucus — now called the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission — amounts to little more than a political PR arena.
THE GREAT LIE OF THE FIRST GULF WARMAT NASHEDAUGUST 17, 2020OZY
This, however, did not apply to the waters lying directly around the Poloe and Flatland groups.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
SUMMER BIRDS FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULAERWIN E. KLAAS
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMAN
Indeed, a score of bodies lying there had not been seen by Malcolm during his first frenzied examination of the house.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
He went himself to the kitchen, which was a building apart from the cottages and lying to the rear of the house.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
WORDS RELATED TO LYING
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- artful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hypocritical
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wily
- beguilement
- betrayal
- blarney
- boondoggle
- cheat
- circumvention
- cozenage
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- deceitfulness
- deceptiveness
- defraudation
- dirt
- disinformation
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- equivocation
- falsehood
- fast one
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hokum
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- insincerity
- juggling
- legerdemain
- lying
- mendacity
- pretense
- prevarication
- snow job
- sophism
- treachery
- treason
- trickery
- trickiness
- trumpery
- untruth
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.