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(Entry 1 of 4)
- that lying son of a gun told me that the used car had never been in an accident
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lying
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of lying (Entry 2 of 4)
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- artifice,
- cheating,
- cozenage,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- crookedness,
- crookery,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- dishonesty,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- fakery,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- wiliness
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- fraudulence,
- hanky-panky,
- jugglery,
- legerdemain,
- mountebankery,
- obliquity,
- skulduggery
- (or skullduggery),
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickery,
- wile
- artfulness,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- deviousness,
- shrewdness
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lying
verb (1)Synonyms & Antonyms of lying (Entry 3 of 4)
- would I lie to you about that?
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lying
verb (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of lying (Entry 4 of 4)
- I left the book lying on the counter
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- paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout
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The first known use of lying was in the 14th century
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