LIED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

lied

verb

Definition of lied

past tense of lie

as in deceived

to make a statement one knows to be untrue would I lie to you about that?

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Recent Examples of lied The film follows the creation of OpenAI; the man who made the technology, Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov); and how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield) lied his way into leading the world’s most dangerous technology. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026 The stars lied about their romance in press interviews for decades afterward. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 The Bass campaign, citing the fact that Raman appeared on Piker’s stream the same day, fired off an email to reporters claiming the councilmember had lied about her reasons for missing the Jewish heritage event. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Nantambu spent a month in a Middle Eastern jail before proving that Brown lied. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 OpenAI revealed that the Hugging Face hack wasn't the only time its bots had lied, cheated, and hidden its tracks from humans. — David Pogue, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 That, to me, is a relevant piece of information, and if someone stood at the podium and lied, that’s very valuable too. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026 But Puente, who lied pathologically, spun a more elaborate story of the sisters’ visit. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Investigators said Puig lied about his knowledge and participation in the gambling operation, and the basis of his interactions with other participants. — Sam Blum, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Some veterans say recruiters deceived them and Haitian authorities tortured them; their families call them scapegoats.

— Astrid Suárez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Some of the Colombians have long maintained that they were deceived about the mission and arrived at the home after Moïse had already been killed.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026