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Lying

noun

The deliberate act of deviating from the truth. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication.

Lie

verb

(in the sense of being located: past lay; past part. lain, obs. lien; pres. part. lying) (in the sense of telling an untruth: past & past part. lied; pres. part. lying)

Be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position.

Be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position. "The books are lying on the shelf" Antonyms: sit, stand.

Originate (in). Synonyms: consist, dwell, lie in.

Be and remain in a particular state or condition.

Tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive. "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

Have a place in relation to something else. Synonym: rest. "The responsibility rests with the Allies"

Assume a reclining position. Synonym: lie down. Antonym: arise.

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... the king's household was diminished, twenty- five thousand men were struck off the strength of the army, exemption from talliage for six years was promised to all such discharged soldiers as should restore a deserted house, and should put into cultivation the fields lying waste. At the same time something was being taken off the crushing weight of the taxes, and the state was assuming the charge of recovering them directly, without any regard for the real or supposed advances of the receivers-general; ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... she answered, very calm to all appearance. "Who can know better than I? But first you must oblige me by lying down again, or else I will not say one word more. That is right. Now keep still. Your mother is furiously displeased with me—I am sorry—but she will get over it. I know that in Jacqueline you would have a good wife—a wife far better ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... may desire, some liking the knuckle-end, as well done, and others preferring the more underdone part. The fat should be sought near the line 3 to 4. Some connoisseurs are fond of having this joint dished with the under-side uppermost, so as to get at the finely-grained meat lying under that part of the meat, known as the Pope's eye; but this is an extravagant fashion, and one that will hardly find favour in the eyes of many economical ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... difficulty there would be in arranging any result that could be permanently counted on with this man. It was inevitable that he should wish to get rid of John Raffles, though his reappearance could not be regarded as lying outside the divine plan. The spirit of evil might have sent him to threaten Mr. Bulstrode's subversion as an instrument of good; but the threat must have been permitted, and was a chastisement of a new kind. It was an hour of anguish for him very different from the hours in which his struggle had ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... sadly vulgar and so offensive that a little varnish improves them. In this sense, and when it comes from a feeling of shame or good-will, hypocrisy deserves a good deal of the eulogy which Mark Twain has heaped on it in his charming satire, "The Decadence of the Art of Lying." ...

— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

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