All lie synonyms
lie
L l noun lie
- subterfuge β an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- calumniation β to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- mendacity β the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- fraudulence β characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- falsification β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
verb lie
- pervert β to affect with perversion.
- frame β a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- bull β A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
- invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- dupe β duplicate.
- beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
- snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.
- fudge β a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- victimize β to make a victim of.
- palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- plant β any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- misstate β to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- phony β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- dissemble β to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- delude β If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
- misinform β to give false or misleading information to.
- fabricate β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- malign β to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- forswear β to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- perjure β to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
- dissimulate β to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- soft-soap β Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- misspeak β Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- overdraw β to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- misguide β to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- bs β BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.
- recline β to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
- retire β a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
- repose β the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- couch β A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.
- lounge β to pass time idly and indolently.
- nap β to sleep for a short time; doze.
- siesta β a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- loll β to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge: to loll on a sofa.
- laze β to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- beset β If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- be β You use be with a present participle to form the continuous tenses of verbs.
- reach β to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- occupy β to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.