Lie [noun]
Definition of Lie:
untruth
Synonyms of Lie:
● Fiction
● Evasion
● Myth
● Forgery
● Slander
● Tale
● Perjury
● Deceit
● Falsity
● Reviling
● Fable
● Obloquy
● Fib
● Libel
● Calumny
● Whopper
● Guile
Sentence/Example of Lie:
They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful.
The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
In our western communities the dangers to the intellectual nexus lie rather on the other side.
Because it appears that in that ancient Accadian civilisation lie the seeds of many Bible laws and legends.
It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.
They lie either singly or superimposed to form more or less irregular clusters (Fig. 36).
Quite a good lot of bullets were plopping into the water, so the Commodore ordered the Colne to lie further out.