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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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From people who have a nagging feeling that someone is lying to them, to those who need to prove their innocence, the experienced professionals at UK Lie Detector Test are ready and willing to help.

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There is no limit to their sickening lies, starting with the KabataE- lie -- in which it was claimed by Erdoy-an, who was prime minister then, that a politician from the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) headscarved daughter-in-law was violently attacked, along with her baby, by a group of around 100 mostly nude protesters wearing leather at the KabataE- ferry station in ystanbul, in early June of 2013, at the height of the Gezi Park protests.

Kingdom of lies

Sometimes they were told whether to lie or tell the truth, and sometimes they made that decision themselves.

Telling the whole truth

She warns that if lying becomes a strong currency in a family, a child will then lie with less control than adults because of their underdeveloped understanding of what's socially acceptable.

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Verschuere said that the fact that participants who indicated lying often actually did lie more often in the dice test demonstrates that they were honest about their dishonesty.

Majority of people don't lie as frequently as you think

While in the lock-kneed position, grip down the shaft a bit due to your distance from the ball being different from that of the flat lie set up.

The simple truth about all those lies

A preschooler faced with an angry red-faced adult might lie out of fear or to fill in something or anything for what they do not understand.

Don't ever lie to me!

The aim of this paper is to compute the index of Lie algebras in low dimensions and in general for some special cases.

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Whereas polygraphic lie detection rests on the flawed premise that emotionality discloses lying (a premise refuted by me and others in articles appearing in Nature, Harvard Business Review, and American Psychologist), honesty testing assumes that admitting to past sins predicts sinfulness.

True lies: the dishonesty of honesty tests

Other top subjects Americans lie to their parents about include alcohol and illegal substance use (12% each), physical health (11%) and cigarette use (10%).

Seven in Ten Americans Think Others Lied on This Poll - but Fewer than One in Ten Admit to Doing So Themselves

They can learn to tell lies at an early age and generally lie more between four and six years of age.

Lessons in honesty

Mahon, who has written the definition of lying for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, says: "Certain conditions have to be in place for a statement to rise to the level of a lie.