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Telling Lies |
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| Verbs / verb phrases related to telling lies |
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| Tell a lie |
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To deliberately say something that is not true. |
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To tell a lie or keep telling lies. |
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| Lie / lied / lied - lying |
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"How do we know that you aren't lying?" |
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| Lie through your teeth |
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To say something that is completely untrue. |
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She looked so sweet and innocent, it was hard to believe she was lying through her teeth.. |
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| To tell tales (on sb) |
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If someone, especially a child, tells tales, they tell lies about someone else, in order to make you believe that the other person has behaved badly. |
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Mary Stephens, you naughty girl, have you been telling tales again? |
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| Fob sb off (with) |
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To try to stop someone complaining or asking questions by giving them explanations, excuses etc. that are easily seen to be untrue and cannot be accepted. |
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He fobbed her off with some story about losing her phone number.. |
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| Nouns related to telling lies |
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| LIE |
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I told her I loved her. It was a lie of course. |
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A lie that does not harm anyone, especially one that is told to avoid hurting someone's feeling. |
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| WHITE LIE |
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I told her that her dress looked nice. It was a white lie, but it cheered her up. |
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An informal word meaning a lie, especially one that is not very important. |
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What I said about wanting to study math was just a fib. I really wanted to see you. |
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| FALSEHOOD |
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A formal word meaning an untrue statement or story that has been invented, especially in order to give people the wrong idea about someone or something. |
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They poisoned people's minds by spreading falsehoods and malicious rumors. |
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| HALF-TRUTH |
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A statement that is almost a lie because it does not tell the whole truth about something. |
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All we could get out of the suspects were lies and half-truths. |
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The crime of telling a lie in a court of law when you have promised to tell the truth. |
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| PERJURY |
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The two witnesses who gave false evidence will be charged with perjury. |
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False or partly false information that is spread by a government or political organization, in order to make people support or agree with their political aims or beliefs. |
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| PROPAGANDA |
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How important is propaganda in preparing for war? |
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Words that go with LIE |
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an outright lie |
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a barefaced lie |
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a blatant lie |
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A tissue of lies |
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a pack of lies |
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