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lienoun a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivehe wanted to deny the accusation, but he couldn't tell a lie fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper distortion, exaggeration, half-truthambiguity, equivocation, obliquitydefamation, libel, slanderperjurybluff, fiction, pose, pretense(or pretence)humbug, jive, nonsensecanard, fallacy, misconception, mythfalsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementdeceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence truth fact, truism, verityhonesty, truthfulness, veracityauthentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification to make a statement one knows to be untruewould I lie to you about that? fabricate, fib, prevaricate forswear(also foreswear), perjureequivocate, fudge, palterbeguile, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, snow, take in, trickdefame, libel, slander, traducefalsify, misreport, misrepresent, misstatedistort, garbledissemble, dissimulatemisguide, misinform, mislead assert, swear, testifyauthenticate, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain directionthe train tracks lie just over that hill bear, extend, go, head, lead, run cross, cut, passcourse, follow, span, traverse to occupy a place or locationI left the book lying on the counter be, bear, sit, stand command, overlookhang around, remain, rest, stay, stick around, tarryawait, waitpost, stationdwell, reside to remain out of sightpaparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout hide, hole up, lurk, repose, skulk slink, sneakavoid, elude, evade lie low, sit tight appear come out, materialize, show up, turn up v.lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth.lie is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty.lied about where he had been prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue.during the hearings the witness did his best to prevaricate equivocate implies using words having more than one sense so as to seem to say one thing but intend another.equivocated endlessly in an attempt to mislead her inquisitors palter implies making unreliable statements of fact or intention or insincere promises.a swindler paltering with his investors fib applies to a telling of a trivial untruth.fibbed about the price of the new suit before the 12th century |