lying

ly·ing ¹

 (lī′ĭng)

v.

Present participle of lie¹.

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ly·ing ²

 (lī′ĭng)

v.

Present participle of lie².

adj.

Disposed to or characterized by untruth: a lying witness. See Synonyms at dishonest.

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lying

(ˈlaɪɪŋ)

vb

the present participle and gerund of lie¹

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lying

(ˈlaɪɪŋ)

vb

the present participle and gerund of lie²

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ly•ing¹

(ˈlaɪ ɪŋ)

n.

1. the telling of lies.

adj.

2. telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful.

[1175–1225]

ly′ing•ly, adv.

ly•ing²

(ˈlaɪ ɪŋ)

v.

pres. part. of lie ².

ly′ing•ly, adv.

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Lying

 of pardoners; company of pardoners, i.e., those who pardon or forgive sins—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.

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Lying

 

See Also: BEARING, BENDING/BENT, IMMOBILITY, POSTURE, SITTING, SLEEP, STANDING

1. Lay … as if chloroformed —Wallace Stegner
2. Lay as still as a fallen doll —George Garrett
3. Lay in bed like a tree stump —Charles Johnson
4. Lay lifeless as if spellbound —Herman Melville
5. Lay like an aimlessly flung sack of bones —Harvey Swados
6. Lay on his back … rigid and ruined, like some stained window mannequin —Davis Grubb
7. Lay on the sofa like cast-off silk stockings —Delmore Schwartz

   In his journal entry Schwartz followed this with two additional comparisons: “Like fallen buildings … like a car over turned.” Had he been writing forty years later, he would have been apt to refer to pantyhose instead of silk stockings.

   See Also: ABANDONMENT

8. Lay perfectly still, as if dead with fear —D. H. Lawrence
9. Lay … rigid, as if she were dead —Elizabeth Taylor
10. Lay rigidly still, as still as if he were in his coffin —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
11. Lay side by side like fish —Lawrence Durrell
12. (Fallen and helpless, he) lay there like a pine tree that has been torn up by the roots —Ellen Glasgow
13. Lay there..stretched like a corpse —Hugh Walpole
14. Lay where she was for a few minutes like a flake of foam —Vicki Baum
15. (We’d) lie … like two sticks in bed —Elizabeth Spencer
16. The lovers like great scissors lay —Delmore Schwartz

    See Also: MEN AND WOMEN

17. Sprawled around … like shepherds in a frieze —Julia O’Faolain
18. Sprawled like a man who had been threshed —Stephen Crane
19. Sprawling like an exhausted dog —Mary Hedin

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

lying - the deliberate act of deviating from the truth prevarication, fabrication falsification, misrepresentation - a willful perversion of facts fibbing, paltering - a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear

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lying

noun

1. dishonesty, perjury, deceit, fabrication, guile, misrepresentation, duplicity, fibbing, double-dealing, prevarication, falsity, mendacity, dissimulation, untruthfulness Lying is something that I will not tolerate.

adjective

1. deceitful, false, deceiving, treacherous, dishonest, two-faced, double-dealing, dissembling, mendacious, perfidious, untruthful, guileful You lying, cowardly beast!
deceitful straight, frank, reliable, straightforward, sincere, honest, candid, truthful, forthright, veracious

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lying

adjective

Given to or marked by deliberate concealment or misrepresentation of the truth:

deceitful, dishonest, mendacious, untruthful.

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Translations

menteur

bugiardobugiedisonesto

враньёлживый

lying

[ˈlaɪɪŋ]

A. ADJ [statement, story] → falso
you lying son-of-a-bitch! → ¡mentiroso hijo de puta!

B. N → mentiras fpl

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lying

[ˈlaɪɪŋ]

n → mensonges mpl, mensonge m

adj

[statement, story] → mensonger/ère, faux(fausse)

[person] → menteur/euselymph node [ˈlɪmfnəʊd] n → ganglion m lymphatique

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lying

adj → lügnerisch, verlogen

n → Lügen nt; that would be lying → das wäre gelogen

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lying

[ˈlaɪɪŋ]

1. adj (statement, story) → falso/a; (person) → bugiardo/a

2. n → bugie fpl, menzogne fpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

lying

a. acostado-a; recostado-a; extendido-a.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

lying

(ger de lie) adj (también — down) acostado

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