Antonyms for lies
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : lahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : laɪ |
Definition of lies
Origin :- "speak falsely, tell an untruth," late 12c., from Old English legan, ligan, earlier leogan "deceive, belie, betray" (class II strong verb; past tense leag, past participle logen), from Proto-Germanic *leugan (cf. Old Norse ljuga, Danish lyve, Old Frisian liaga, Old Saxon and Old High German liogan, German lügen, Gothic liugan), from PIE root *leugh- "to tell a lie."
- noun untruth
- verb tell an untruth
- verb be prostrate, flat
- verb be situated
- On a rock, amid the roaring water, Lies Cassiopea's gentle daughter.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- "The beauty that lies within has ever a mysterious power," answered Plato.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- It lies behind that tall monument; I cannot see it for the blossoming boughs.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Let me tell you then, proceeded she, that all lies in a small compass, as your father said.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Shall we pause now and turn our back upon the road that lies ahead?
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- This apparent inconsistency, however, lies only on the surface.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- She lies athwart the lands, and her shadow is over the seas.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alas for my poor sword which lies at the bottom of the Garonne!
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- But a small portion of the Cumberland lies above a plane of 2,000 feet.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various
- He lies prone on the floor, staring at me with dead, sightless eyes.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
Synonyms for lies
- aspersion
- backbiting
- be
- be beside
- be buried
- be established
- be even
- be fixed
- be found
- be interred
- be level
- be located
- be on
- be placed
- be prone
- be recumbent
- be seated
- be smooth
- be supine
- be untruthful
- bear false witness
- beguile
- belong
- beset
- break promise
- BS
- bull
- calumniation
- calumny
- con
- concoct
- couch
- deceit
- deceive
- deception
- defamation
- delude
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- distortion
- dupe
- equivocate
- evasion
- exaggerate
- exist
- extend
- fable
- fabricate
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsify
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- forswear
- frame
- fraudulence
- fudge
- go back on
- go to bed
- guile
- have its seat in
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invent
- invention
- laze
- libel
- lie down
- loll
- lounge
- make believe
- malign
- mendacity
- misguide
- misinform
- misinstruct
- mislead
- misrepresent
- misrepresentation
- misspeak
- misstate
- misstatement
- myth
- nap
- obloquy
- occupy
- overdraw
- palter
- perjure
- perjury
- pervert
- phony
- plant
- prevail
- prevaricate
- prevarication
- promote
- put on
- put up a front
- reach
- recline
- remain
- repose
- rest
- retire
- revilement
- reviling
- siesta
- slander
- sleep
- snow
- soft-soap
- sprawl
- spread
- stretch
- stretch out
- string along
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- turn in
- victimize
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
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