lying

lying
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [In the act of lying]
Syn. untruthful, falsifying, prevaricating, swearing falsely, committing perjury, fibbing, misstating, misrepresenting, inventing, dissimuLating, equivocating, malingering.
Ant. frank*, truthful, veracious.
2. [Given to lying]
Syn. dishonest, deceitful, unreliable, double-dealing; see dishonest 1 , 2 .
3. [Not reliable]
Syn. unsound, tricky, treacherous; see false 2 , unreliable 2 .
4. [Prostrate]
Syn. supine, reclining, jacent, resting, horizontal, procumbent, resupine, reposing, recumbent, flat, fallen, prone, crashed, dropped, tumbled, powerless.
See Synonym Study at dishonest .
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
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n.
dishonesty, untruthfulness, prevarication, deceit, fibbing, dissembling, fabrication, storytelling, insincerity, mendacity. ''A form of creativity; talking the truth is being only a reporter.''—Eric Hoffer.
ANT.: honesty, truth-telling
II
a.
dishonest, untruthful, deceitful, fibbing, dissembling, mendacious, fabricating, insincere, prevaricating.
ANT.: truthful, honest
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Given to or marked by deliberate concealment or misrepresentation of the truth: deceitful, dishonest, mendacious, untruthful. See HONEST.

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