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lie

noun calumny, deceit, deception, distortion, false statement, falsehood, falsification, falsity, fiction, fraud, intentional distortion, intentional exaggeration, intentional misstatement, intentional untruth, invention, mendacity, mendacium, misrepresentation, misstatement, perversion, prevarication, untruth
Associated concepts: defamation, libel, perjury, polygraph test, slander

lie

(Be sustainable), verb be allowable, be appropriate, be available, be established, be evident, be fitting, be perrissible, be permitted, be possible, be proper, be suitable, be suited, be supportable, be warranted, exist, extend, stand

lie

(Falsify), verb be dishonest, be untruthful, bear false witness, belie, commit perjury, concoct, counterfeit, delude, deviate from the truth, dissimulate, fable, fabricate, falsify, fib, fool, forswear, invent, misguide, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, palter, perjure oneself, pervert, pretend, prevaricate, repreeent falsely, swear falsely, tell a falsehood, tell an untruth
Associated concepts: false testimony, lie detector, perjury

TO LIE. That which is proper, is fit; as, an action on the case lies for an injury committed without force; corporeal hereditaments lie in livery, that is, they pass by livery; incorporeal hereditaments lie in grant, that is, pass by the force of the grant, and without any livery. Vide Lying in grant.

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Sam Butler, chairman of the Country-side Alliance's hunting task force and master of the War-wickshire Hunt, said: "These new findings from research carried out by two reputable organisations clearly endorses our own contention that rural people support the practice of hunting and gives the lie to the assertion that there is any majority support for a ban on hunting.

Rural people 'do not oppose' hunting

The airline policy gives the lie to quasi-religious reverence for unregulated, unfettered capitalism.

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It gives the lie to the idea that we're all in this together, doesn't it.

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The CBI says that the study gives the lie to claims by ministers at the time of the Regional Assembly referendum that North-East businesses were not taking their social responsibilities seriously enough.

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It was a scene out of comic opera, and it gives the lie to Conservative propaganda that Michael Howard is a political superman sent to lead his party to the promised land of Downing Street.

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The much-vaunted military technology thus gives the lie to the need for both ground invasion and regime change.

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The news Britain's jobless total has fallen below the magic million to a 25-year low gives the lie to Tory propaganda of today and yesterday.

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He says it gives the lie to the radio star's claim that she's an orphan and only child.

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Like Castaneda's, this work gives the lie to the regnant free-marketeers in Washington.