LIE Synonyms

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• a trivial lie

• tell a relatively insignificant lie

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• the quality of being deceitful

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• the act of deceiving

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being crafty

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• the tendency to be untruthful

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• a misleading falsehood

• a willful perversion of facts

• a false statement

• originate (in)

• have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in

• be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous

• be composed of

• think moodily or anxiously about something

• originate (in)

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• exist or be situated within

• come back to

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting