lying

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/]

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1. lying (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.

Example: [W]hether a man would fain be pleased with sin, or be quiet and fearless when he hath sinned, or continue in it, or persuade others to it, he must do it by false propositions, by lyings, and such weak discourses as none can believe but such as are born fools, or such as have made themselves so, or are made so by others.

2. lying (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious

Example: Gloster: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom.

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