Synonyms of lying

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adjective

ˈlī-iŋ 

as in dishonest

telling or containing lies

that lying son of a gun told me that the used car had never been in an accident

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dishonest
• misleading
• erroneous
• mendacious
• untruthful
• false
• untrue
• fallacious
• hypocritical
• hypocrite
• insincere
• two-faced
• perjurious
• double-dealing
• mealymouthed
• smooth-tongued

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• honest
• truthful
• open
• true
• moral
• candid
• sincere
• straightforward
• earnest
• veracious
• scrupulous
• conscientious
• reliable
• straight
• principled
• trustworthy
• just
• plainspoken
• upright
• dependable
• ethical
• virtuous
• trusty
• righteous
• honorable
• decent
• respectable
• trustable
• upstanding
• right-minded

lying

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noun

as in deception

Related Words

• deception
• prevarication
• cheating
• dishonesty
• mendacity
• deceit
• duplicity
• dissembling
• swindling
• double-dealing
• equivocation
• fraud
• subterfuge
• deceptiveness
• crookedness
• dissimulation
• dupery
• fakery
• trickery
• crookery
• hypocrisy
• wile
• chicanery
• skulduggery
• fraudulence
• cunning
• fib
• cozenage
• deceitfulness
• jugglery
• guile
• craftiness
• hanky-panky
• obliquity
• mountebankery
• insincerity
• cunningness
• wiliness
• falsehood
• untruth
• chicane
• legerdemain
• craft
• artifice
• guilefulness
• sanctimoniousness
• foxiness
• falsity
• shrewdness
• deviousness
• underhandedness
• secrecy
• two-facedness
• treacherousness
• unscrupulousness
• artfulness
• caginess
• sneakiness
• furtiveness
• shadiness
• covertness
• slipperiness
• smoothness
• shiftiness
• slyness
• stealthiness
• slickness
• oiliness

Dissimilar Words

• good faith
• sincerity
• ingenuousness
• openness
• artlessness
• frankness
• forthrightness
• honesty
• candor
• directness
• plainness
• guilelessness
• reliability
• probity
• trustworthiness
• plainspokenness
• integrity
• goodness
• truthfulness
• solidity
• righteousness
• candidness
• dependability
• decency
• uprightness
• incorruptibility
• trustiness
• reliableness
• trustability
• virtuousness

lying

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verb (1)

present participle of lie

as in deceiving

to make a statement one knows to be untrue

would I lie to you about that?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• fibbing
• fooling
• kidding
• prevaricating
• tricking
• fabricating
• misrepresenting
• perjuring
• deluding
• slandering
• equivocating
• libeling
• duping
• snowing
• misstating
• forswearing
• distorting
• hoodwinking
• falsifying
• misleading
• defaming
• misreporting
• fudging
• dissembling
• hoaxing
• gulling
• paltering
• misinforming
• taking in
• traducing
• dissimulating
• beguiling
• cozening
• misguiding
• garbling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• asserting
• testifying
• confirming
• verifying
• swearing
• validating
• substantiating
• authenticating

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verb (2)

present participle of lie

1

as in leading

to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction

the train tracks lie just over that hill

Synonyms & Similar Words

• leading
• going
• running
• extending
• heading
• crossing
• bearing
• cutting
• passing
• following
• spanning
• traversing
• coursing

2

as in sitting

to occupy a place or location

I left the book lying on the counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sitting
• being
• standing
• resting
• residing
• remaining
• waiting
• bearing
• staying
• overlooking
• awaiting
• commanding
• hanging around
• posting
• sticking around
• tarrying
• dwelling
• stationing

3

as in hiding

to remain out of sight

paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiding
• lurking
• skulking
• reposing
• lying low
• sneaking
• slinking
• holing up
• evading
• avoiding
• sitting tight
• eluding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appearing
• coming out
• showing up
• turning up
• materializing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lying

Adjective

He was found dead lying face up on his hotel bed with no signs of trauma, according to a Monday report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022

Noun

Meanwhile, Melanie’s sister, Steph, begged Melanie to leave Sincere because of his compulsive lying and shady behavior. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 1 Sep. 2026

Trending Stories Inevitably, the lying started to catch up with her. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026

The latest indictment, which the district attorney said was returned July 20, adds the lying in wait circumstance to the previous murder charges. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez then accused Rubio of lying and said that Cuba had no knowledge of the offer. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026

Those gathering for the lying in state and funeral will contrast with huge nationwide protests in January that were met by a deadly crackdown by security forces that left thousands dead and sent shock waves around the world. — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 3 July 2026

What better time than the summer of the nation’s 250th anniversary of independence to reflect on how Trump’s years of lying have corroded the citizenry’s essential belief in the integrity of elections? — Jackie Calmes, Mercury News, 19 June 2026

Stop the madness, stop the lying, and just be free. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026

In the finale of Season 2, the women have gotten past the lying and scheming and are in a new and more honest place. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 June 2026

Verb

That includes the energy pumped out from the hearts of galaxies by feeding supermassive black holes, a type of cosmic feedback that smooths out clumpy cosmic matter lying outside galaxies. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Of those same top-six roles, arguably only that of the deepest-lying midfielder, in No 6 Nico Gonzalez, is written in ink rather than pencil. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Vucic, who is not attending the funeral, previously has accused Kos of lying. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

Back in Georgia, Brown is also facing a misdemeanor obstruction charge in Paulding County for lying and hindering an investigation, Paulding County Sheriff Ashley Henson told CNN affiliate WSB. — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Later, after clearing the Silo 1 control room, Victor both chastises Camille for her failures and grudgingly praises her for lying so convincingly that his biometric lie detectors couldn’t detect it. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Debates the dystopian vision of Hulu’s A Handmaid’s Tale, lying flat on his back on a bed, draped in a red robe. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

An aerial view shows houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality in Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 27, 2026. — Sam Meredith,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

Their time in Fiji was marked by endless drama, with Sincere often lying and leaving Melanie feeling humiliated on several occasions. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 1 Sep. 2026